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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  John Armstrong

  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!

  John Armstrong

  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.

  John Armstrong

  Needs, Ifs

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

  John Armstrong

  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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• 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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• 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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• Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame.

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  Sex, Revenge, Mean

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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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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• When you're doing wrong, you're gonna think wrong.

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  Thinking

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• If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day.

  John Armstrong

  Luxury, Secret, Bed

  John Armstrong (1795*). “The Œconomy of Love: By Dr. Armstrong. ...”, p.27

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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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• Our greatest good, and what we least can spare,
  Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

  John Armstrong

  Hope, Evil, Lasts

  John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.60

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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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