Quotes by James Vila Blake

James Vila Blake

An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.

Enemy

Errors

Thoughtfulness

As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.

Anger

Black

Wind

As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.

Anger

Management

Passion

As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power.

Giving

Light

Sublime

Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation in judgment. For sound sense implies all powers uniting; none too prominent, so as to tyrannize; none too small, so as to be overborne.

Common Sense

Sound

Understanding

Democracy has become, unless I mistake, a kind of test or shibboleth, by which we try men and measures; and this is the same as to say that it is merely a word which is powerful with us, and not the wide and true notion of what the word means. But we must define the true import of words, and not be slaves to syllables; for democracy in form is not necessarily people-power in fact, but power perhaps of a few, who cajole the many and so lead and use the people for their own ends.

Mean

Mistake

Powerful

Individuality in opinion, or, what is more, in thinking, is simply one with thinking at all; for he who thinks thereby looks at the thing or the fact itself and takes its measure by observation directly, not content with the measures of others.

Individuality

Looks

Thinking

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.

Mind

Poison

Rats

Kindness is not like a barter, so much for so much; or so much by contract, and my duty done. But kindness is like a righteousness or like a worship, not done unless it be done all I can. For the heart must run forth without measure like a child, and kindness be wound around like a child’s arms about the neck, not by measure, but as tightly and as long as they can be.

Children

Kindness

Running

Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a black and horrible tempest. In its mid-region, where it is neither too little to be motive nor too furious to be ungovernable, it has usefulness. For all feeling is as fuel, and where there is none life has no fire, and then no flame of ascent.

Anger

Fire

Passion

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Anger

Attention

Black

Children

Common Sense

Country

Covenant

Cutting

Enemy

Errors

Fire

Giving

Greatness

Helping

Hero

Individuality

Issues

Judging

Kindness

Light

Looks

Management

Mean

Meditation

Men

Mind

Mistake

Passion

People

Play

Poison

Powerful

Rats

Running

Sight

Sound

Stars

Struggle

Sublime

Thinking

Thoughtfulness

Together

Truth

Understanding

War

Wind

Wings

Wish

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Quotes by James Vila Blake

James Vila Blake

An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.

As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.

As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.

As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power.

Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation in judgment. For sound sense implies all powers uniting; none too prominent, so as to tyrannize; none too small, so as to be overborne.

Individuality in opinion, or, what is more, in thinking, is simply one with thinking at all; for he who thinks thereby looks at the thing or the fact itself and takes its measure by observation directly, not content with the measures of others.

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.

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