Howard Mumford Jones quotes
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“If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.”
-- Howard Mumford JonesSource : Howard Mumford Jones (1952). “The Bright Medusa”
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“Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.”
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“Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.”
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“Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.”
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“Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies”
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“The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.”
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“To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others have done; and this, because the humanities are at once the creation and the interpreters of the past, is the great purpose of humanistic scholarship.”
-- Howard Mumford Jones
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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Source : Alexandra Fuller (2011). “Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness”, p.146, Simon and Schuster
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“Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.”
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“If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?”
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“I sold my soul, you brought it back for me. And held me up, and gave me dignity.”
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