John Gardiner Calkins Brainard quotes

“Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.”
-- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

Source : John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, John Greenleaf Whittier (1832). “The Literary Remains of J.G.C. Brainard: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.156

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“I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one.”
-- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

Source : John Gardiner Calkins BRAINARD (1842). “The Poems of John G. C. Brainard. A New and Authentic Collection, with an Original Memoir of His Life. [With a Portrait.]”, p.19

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“The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That swells and sinks amid the branches high,-- 'Tis all the music of the wind, and we Let fancy float on the aeolian breath.”
-- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

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“Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.”
-- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

Source : John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, Royal Robbins (1842). “The Poems of John G. C. Brainard: A New and Authentic Collection, with an Original Memoir of His Life”, p.70

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“At the piping of all hands,When the judgment-signal's spread-When the islands and the landsAnd the seas give up their dead,And the South and North shall come;When the sinner is dismayed,And the just man is afraid,Then Heaven be thy aid,Poor Tom.”
-- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

Source : John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1846). “The Poems of John G.C. Brainard: A New and Authentic Collection, with an Original Memoir of His Life”, p.70

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“Far beneath the tainted foamThat frets above our peaceful home,We dream in joy and wake in loveNor know the rage that yells above.”
-- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

Source : John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, John Greenleaf Whittier (1832). “The Literary Remains of J.G.C. Brainard: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.136

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“God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand.”
-- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

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“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.”

“Observe the world around you everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.”

“I really wished he hadn't made me hate to read the Bible. Having it shoved down my throat all my life had made me bitter toward reading it. I believed it, but my dad had used it to his benefit too many times and ignored the parts in there that would point out his wrongs. Like judging Beau without even knowing him. That was in the Bible too.”

“I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.”

“I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.”

“The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.”

Source : Alan Ayckbourn (2015). “The Crafty Art of Playmaking”, p.11, Macmillan

“I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.”

“For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.”

“Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?”

“By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.”