John Stuart Blackie Quotes

• Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Wine, Water, Tea

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• Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Order, Law, Existence

  John Stuart Blackie (1881). “Lay Sermons”

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• Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Plato, Simple, Order

  John Stuart Blackie (1881). “Lay Sermons”

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• The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Religious, Art, Men

  John Stuart Blackie (1858). “On beauty: three discourses delivered in the University of Edinburgh”, p.104

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• All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

  John Stuart Blackie

  God, Law, Fairs

  JOHN STUART BLACKIE (1876). “SONGS OF RELIGION AND LIFE”

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• Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Drama, Heaven, Earth

  JOHN STUART BLACKIE (1876). “SONGS OF RELIGION AND LIFE”

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• All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

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  Truth, Men, Use

  John Stuart Blackie (1877). “The Wise Men of Greece: In a Series of Dramatic Dialogues”

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• A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Eye, Glasses, Shining

  John Stuart Blackie (1901). “The day-book of John Stuart Blackie”

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• Rocking on a lazy billow
  With roaming eyes,
  Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,
  Thou art now wise.
  Wake the power within thee slumbering,
  Trim the plot that's in thy keeping,
  Thou wilt bless the task when reaping
  Sweet labour's prize.

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  Wise, Sweet, Art

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• Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

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  Men, Solitude, Loner

  John Stuart Blackie (1857). “Lays and legends of ancient Greece: with other poems”, p.260

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• The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

  John Stuart Blackie

  Wise, Men, Water

  John Stuart Blackie (1877). “The Wise Men of Greece: In a Series of Dramatic Dialogues”

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