Quotes by John Armstrong

John Armstrong

For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.

Care

Death

Science

For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, unenjoy’d. Hence to this peopled earth, which, that extinct, That flame for propagation, soon would roll A lifeless mass, and vainly cumber heaven.

Earth

Flames

Heaven

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 ripens by degrees.

Age

Rude

Song

How happy he whose toil Has o’er his languid pow’rless limbs diffus’d A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow’rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.

Deities

Dream

Sleep

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

Demand

Imagination

Views

Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro’ the desert air, And sow thy perish’d offspring in the winds.

Air

Firsts

Wind

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.

Health

Mind

Support

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 generations; money is the arena in which greed and generosity are played out, in which wisdom is exercised and folly committed. Freedom, desire, power, status, work, possession: these huge ideas that rule life are enacted, almost always, in and around money.

Attitude

Color

Ideas

Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn’d; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine on a fool. But for one end, one much-neglected use, Are riches worth your care; (for nature’s wants Are few, and without opulence supplied;) This noble end is, to produce the soul; To show the virtues in their fairest light; To make humanity the minister Of bounteous Providence; and teach the breast The generous luxury the gods enjoy.

Light

Luxury

Sunshine

Sometimes pantheists will use the term “pandeism” to underscore that they share with the deists the idea that God is not a personal God who desires to be worshipped.

Desire

Ideas

Use

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Age

Air

Asks

Attitude

Balls

Be Brave

Bears

Beautiful

Blessing

Blood

Bravery

Care

Chance

Cities

Color

Compromise

Death

Deities

Demand

Desire

Dream

Dull

Earth

Eye

Firsts

Flames

Fool

Form

Health

Heart

Heaven

Ideas

Imagination

Light

Littles

Luxury

Mean

Mind

Mortals

Moving

Pain

Priorities

Revenge

Rude

Science

Sex

Sleep

Song

Spring

Strong

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Quotes by John Armstrong

John Armstrong

For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.

For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, unenjoy’d. Hence to this peopled earth, which, that extinct, That flame for propagation, soon would roll A lifeless mass, and vainly cumber heaven.

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 ripens by degrees.

How happy he whose toil Has o’er his languid pow’rless limbs diffus’d A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow’rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro’ the desert air, And sow thy perish’d offspring in the winds.

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.

Sometimes pantheists will use the term “pandeism” to underscore that they share with the deists the idea that God is not a personal God who desires to be worshipped.

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