John Stuart Blackie quotes
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“Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.”
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“Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.”
-- John Stuart BlackieSource : John Stuart Blackie (1881). “Lay Sermons”
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“The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.”
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“Order is the law of all intelligible existence.”
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“All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.”
-- John Stuart BlackieSource : JOHN STUART BLACKIE (1876). “SONGS OF RELIGION AND LIFE”
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“Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.”
-- John Stuart BlackieSource : JOHN STUART BLACKIE (1876). “SONGS OF RELIGION AND LIFE”
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“All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.”
-- John Stuart BlackieSource : John Stuart Blackie (1877). “The Wise Men of Greece: In a Series of Dramatic Dialogues”
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“A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.”
-- John Stuart BlackieSource : John Stuart Blackie (1901). “The day-book of John Stuart Blackie”
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“Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim the plot that's in thy keeping, Thou wilt bless the task when reaping Sweet labour's prize.”
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“Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.”
-- John Stuart BlackieSource : John Stuart Blackie (1857). “Lays and legends of ancient Greece: with other poems”, p.260
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“The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water”
-- John Stuart BlackieSource : John Stuart Blackie (1877). “The Wise Men of Greece: In a Series of Dramatic Dialogues”
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