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“Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.”

Men May Reason Age Strong Nations Principles Atheism Mass Positive Atheism Tendencies Multitudes Abstraction Idolatry

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The sad and solemn night hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires; The glorious host of light walk the dark hemisphere till she retires; All through her silent watches, gliding slow, Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.”

Light Night Heaven Stars Dark Walks Watches Fire Silent Glorious Climbs Host Retiring Multitudes Cheerful Solemn Constellations Hemisphere Gliding

Author:William C. Bryant

“We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.”

Desire Subjects Creation Multitudes

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.”

Made Multitudes Rope Blunders Les Miserable

Book:Les Miserables Volume One

Source: Les Miserables Volume One

“There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.”

Belief Multitudes Applause Statesmen Deluded Statesmanship

Book:The Portable Plato

Source: The Portable Plato

“Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day?”

Writing One Day Handle Arise Authenticity Mortals These Days Pens Spells Considering Multitudes Stamps Grammar Violation Permanence

Book:Works

Source: Works

“In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination of the multitude; all energetic passions are directed towards it.”

Passion Imagination Attention Democracy Brilliant Commerce Multitudes Energetic

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.”

Reason Age Past Huge Ordinary Extraordinary Old Age Reason Why Multitudes

Book:The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age

Source: The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age

“When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.”

Persons Able Results Conditions Shots Tests Including Pregnancy Multitudes Viruses Hiv Flu Positive Results Antibodies Hepatitis

Author:Nate Mendel

“The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.”

Should War Victory Sorrow Funeral Multitudes Rite Slaying

Author:Laozi

“No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten.”

Men World Should Littles Moments Happens Eye Remember Lost Hours Attention Conditions Deserve Forgotten Passing Passings Multitudes Glances Vacant

Author:Samuel Johnson

“If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?”

Ifs Men Matter Form Spirit Suffering Dies Force Changed Paid Guests Multitudes Royal Clay Mute Annihilation Forces Of Nature Tenements

Book:The Credo of the Commoner

Source: The Credo of the Commoner

“In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings; but those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.”

“Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not from it. He was never destroyed by his work; he was always on top of it. He moved among people as the master of every situation. He was busier than anyone; the multitudes were always at him, yet he had time, for everything and everyone. He was never hurried, or harassed, or too busy. He had complete supremacy over time; he never let it dictate to him. He talked of my time; my hour. He knew exactly when the moment had come for doing something and when it had not.”

People Moments Purpose Jesus Hours Situation Masters Moved Busy Missions Destroyed My Time Holiday Multitudes Retired Too Busy Supremacy Busier

Author:Evelyn Underhill

“I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.”

Style Faults Metaphor Tendencies Multitudes Disposition Conceit Employing Donne

Author:Sidney Lanier

“The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come in multitudes; for the limitation of their numbers no man knows. They may, unless the general government be restrained ... go into your cellars and rooms, and search, ransack, and measure, everything you eat, drink, and wear.”

Knows Men May Government Rooms Numbers Drink Authority Congress Terror Limitation Officers Multitudes Taxation Paramount Cellars

Author:Patrick Henry

“Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as Lincoln was.”

“A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.”

Firsts Use Lasts Science Memories Subjects Evidence Forgotten Fishes Burden Multitudes Obscure Ink Explaining

Book:The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation

Source: The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation

“The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.”

Source: The Fable of the Bees

“A multitude of books distracts the mind.”

Mind Book Reading Literature Multitudes Book Reading

Author:Socrates

“The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.”

Men Believe Hands Law Church Instruments Every Man Multitudes Bondage Delivering Reformers Hands Of God

Book:What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855

Source: What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855

“The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.”

Ends Action Order Growth Middle Birth Degrees Diversity Perfection Opposites Contrary Reactions Multitudes Duality Succession Vicissitudes Beginning Middle And End Action And Reaction

Book:Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues

Source: Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues

“I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.”

Years War Earth Silent Witness Multitudes Through The Years Desolation

Author:George V

“My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.”

Sound Divine Strange Glory Melody Multitudes Marvellous Flutes Sound Of Music

Author:Paul Twitchell

“Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.”

Way Earth Humanity Benefits Multitudes And Off Mining Asteroids

Author:Peter Diamandis

“The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish a multitude of dogmatic barriers by a single stroke, and to arouse a spirit of rebellion against all ancient authorities whose positive and unauthenticated statements were contradicted by modern science.”

Source: Memories of My Life

“Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins.”

Sin Charity Multitudes Adages Cover Ups

Author:Bob Dylan