Ye who amid this feverish world would wear A body free of pain, of cares a mind, Fly the rank city, shun its turbid air; Breathe not the chaos of eternal smoke And volatile corruption, from the dead, The dying, sickening, and the living world Exhal'd, to sully heaven's transparent dome With dim mortality.
Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripe… - John Armstrong
Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripe…
- John Armstrong
Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave. - John Armstrong
Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.
You don't ask a juggler which ball is highest in priority. Success is to do it all. - John Armstrong
You don't ask a juggler which ball is highest in priority. Success is to do it all.
You can't help people that don't want to be helped. - John Armstrong
You can't help people that don't want to be helped.
For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds. - John Armstrong
For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.
The most beautiful form of compromise is forgiveness. - John Armstrong
The most beautiful form of compromise is forgiveness.
Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion. - John Armstrong
Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.
One’s relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one’s sense of identity, it shapes one’s attitude to other people, it connects and splits genera… - John Armstrong
One’s relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one’s sense of identity, it shapes one’s attitude to other people, it connects and splits genera…
For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, … - John Armstrong
For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, …
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