Quotes by George Stillman Hillard

George Stillman Hillard

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 trading caravan across a desert.

Greatness

Men

Progress

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

May

Men

Sloth

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

Politician

Politics

Statesmen

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Art

Mind

Temptation

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.

Ambition

Unhappy

Weakness

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

Art

Return

Rome

Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.

Art

Men

Struggle

For my boyhood’s friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust, The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.

Beautiful

Friends

Wise

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

Greatness

Men

People

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

Fire

Heart

Law

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Animal

Appreciate

Armor

Arms

Art

Beautiful

Binding

Character

Christian

Companion

Dark

Departed

Dignity

Expression

Eye

Feels

Fire

Flower

Force

Forgiving

Friends

Gentleman

Golden

Greatness

Hands

Hatred

Heart

Hope

Inevitable

Law

Light

May

Mean

Men

Military

Mind

Misfortunes

Moments

Occupation

Opportunity

People

Persons

Politician

Politics

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Redeeming

Reflection

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Quotes by George Stillman Hillard

George Stillman Hillard

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

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.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

For my boyhood’s friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust, The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

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