John Brown Quotes - Page 2

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• Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

  John Brown

  Mother, Body, Tongue

  Horae Subsecivae Series I, Introduction

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• I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, - being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.

  John Brown

  Views, Cheerful, Purpose

  James Redpath, John Brown (1860). “The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth”, p.351

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• Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.

  John Brown

  Clouds, Heaven, Trying

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• Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write,
  As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

  John Brown

  Writing, Mean, White

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• The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits.

  John Brown

  Angel, Spirit, Governing

  John Brown (1862). “An exposition of the Epistle of ... Paul to the Hebrews, ed. by D. Smith”, p.69

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• I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.

  John Brown

  Balls, Faces, Shots

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