Joseph Howe quotes
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“My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?”
-- Joseph HoweSource : Joseph Howe (1858). “Speeches and Public Letters”, p.69
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“A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.”
-- Joseph HoweSource : 1871 Address at Framingham, Massachusetts, 31 Aug. Collected in Poems and Essays (1874).
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“We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.”
-- Joseph HoweSource : Joseph Howe (1858). “Speeches and Public Letters”, p.39
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“My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.”
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“Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.”
-- Joseph Howe
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“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.”
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“I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.”
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“Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.”
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“When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.”
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Source : Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.225, Verso
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“Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.”
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“The last day of your life is still going to be a day.”
Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.
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