John Armstrong Quotes

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• Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

  John Armstrong

  Pain, Grief, Carpe Diem

  John Armstrong, John Aikin (1804). “The Art of Preserving Health”, p.143

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• You can't help people that don't want to be helped.

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  People, Want, Helping

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• The most beautiful form of compromise is forgiveness.

  John Armstrong

  Beautiful, Compromise, Form

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

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  Death, Science, Care

  Art of Preserving Health

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• 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.

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  Dream, Sleep, Deities

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

  John Armstrong

  Health, Support, Mind

  John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.59

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• You don't ask a juggler which ball is highest in priority. Success is to do it all.

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  Priorities, Balls, Asks

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• 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.

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  Attitude, Ideas, Color

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

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  Views, Imagination, Demand

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• Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd
  They hardly know you, or if one remains
  To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven.

  John Armstrong

  Heaven, Wish, Wells

  John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.56

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• This restless world
  Is full of chances, which by habit's power
  To learn to bear is easier than to shun.

  John Armstrong

  World, Bears, Chance

  John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.27

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• 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.

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  Flames, Heaven, Earth

  John Armstrong (1770). “The forced marriage, a tragedy. Sketches: or, Essays on various subjects, by Launcelot Temple, Esq”

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• 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.

  John Armstrong

  Song, Rude, Age

  John Armstrong (1770). “Miscellanies;”, p.129

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• There is, they say, (and I believe there is),
  A spark within us of th' immortal fire,
  That animates and moulds the grosser frame;
  And when the body sinks, escapes to heaven;
  Its native seat, and mixes with the gods.

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  Believe, Fire, Heaven

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.111, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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• How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun!

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  Mountain, Vigor, Sun

  John Armstrong, John Aikin, William Andrus Alcott (1838). “The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem, in Four Books”, p.46

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• Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.

  John Armstrong

  Bravery, Too Late, Be Brave

  John Armstrong, John Aikin (1804). “The Art of Preserving Health”, p.141

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• We need to be free if we are to love.

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  Needs, Ifs

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• Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind.

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  Life, Peru, Mankind

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.119, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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• Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.

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  Serenity, Buoyancy, Way

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• 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.

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  Wind, Air, Firsts

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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• There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.

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  Way, Waste, Fool

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.72, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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• We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the flaming barriers of the world. We feel her power; we strive not to repress (Vainly repress'd, or to deformity) Her lawful growth: ours be the task alone To check her rude excrescencies, to prune Her wanton overgrowth, and where she strays In uncouth shapes, to lead her gently back, With prudent hand, to form and better use.

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  Mother, Nature, Hands

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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• He knows enough, the mariner, who knows
  Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil,
  What signs portend the storm: to subtler minds
  He leaves to scan, from what mysterious cause
  Charybdis rages in the Ionian wave;
  Whence those impetuous currents in the main
  Which neither oar nor sail can stem; and why
  The roughening deep expects the storm, as sure
  As red Orion mounts the shrouded heaven.

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  Sea, Heaven, Mind

  John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.37

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• 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.

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  Sunshine, Light, Luxury

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• What avails it that indulgent Heaven
  From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come,
  If we, ingenious to torment ourselves,
  Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own?
  Enjoy the present; nor which needless cares
  Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb,
  Appal the surest hour that life bestows.
  Serence, and master of yourself, prepare
  For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven.

  John Armstrong

  Spring, Eye, Heaven

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.116, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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