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George Stillman Hillard
18 quotes
“Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.”
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Recorded in: Eulogy on the Life and Services of Daniel Webster. Faneuil Hall, Boston, November 30, 1852
“Anger is a fierce and sudden flame, which may be kindled in the noblest breasts; but in these the slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never take the shape and consistency of enduring hatred.”
George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No man can be a great officer who is not infinitely patient of details, for an army is an aggregation of details, a defect in any one of which may destroy or impair the whole. It is a chain of innumerable links, but the whole chain is no stronger than its weakest link.”
George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men of genius are more apt to feel art than to understand it; and they sometimes mistake that emotion which a work of art calls forth for essential characteristics of the work itself.”
George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sooner or later the world comes round to see the truth and do the right.”
George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the reflection that men who are competent to add to the in-tellectual wealth of the world, and enlarge the domain of knowledge, have learned to take popular applause at its true value, and to find in the faithful discharge of honorable duty a satisfaction which is its own reward.”
George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the divinest thing that can be seen on earth. The value and interest of history are derived chiefly from the lives and services of the eminent men whom it commemorates. Indeed, without these, there would be no such thing as history, and the progress of a nation would be little worth recording, as the march of a trad-ing caravan across a desert.”
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Recorded in: Eulogy, Faneuil Hall, Boston, Νοvember 30, 1852. On the Life and Services of Daniel Webster
“Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.”
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Recorded in: Memorial Meeting to Daniel Webster in Faneuil Hall, Boston, October 25, 1852
“The natural instincts of a generous heart shrink from an inveterate hater as the child shrinks from the snake in his path.”
George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.”
George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life is but another name for action; and he who is without opportunity exists, but does not live.”
George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The venom that chills and curdles the warm current of life in man is secreted only in creeping and cold-blooded creatures; and the inveterate malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.”
George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.”
George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely it is not too much to ask that they should conform to the code of courtesy and good breeding recognized among gentlemen in the intercourse of social life.”
George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.”
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Recorded in: Eulogy, Faneuil Hall, Boston, November 30, 1852. The Life and Services of Daniel Webster
“A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.”
George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.”
George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.”
George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source