Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove,
Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own;
Though solitary, who is not alone,
But doth converse with that eternal love.
William Drummond (1)
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God never had a church but there, men say,
The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,
I dou... WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) Let Zephyr only breathe
And with her tresses play. WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours,
Of winter's past or coming void of care,
Well p... WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) He lives who dies to win a lasting name. WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t... WILLIAM DRUMMOND All that the hand of man can uprear, is either overturned by the hand of man, or at length by standi... WILLIAM DRUMMOND He who dares not (reason), is a slave. WILLIAM DRUMMOND He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is... WILLIAM DRUMMOND He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. WILLIAM DRUMMOND CHRISTMAS DAY Bright portals of the sky, Emboss'd with sparkling stars, Doors of eternity, With ... WILLIAM DRUMMOND Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. WILLIAM DRUMMOND The last and greatest herald of Heaven's King, / Girt with rough skins, hies to the deserts wild. WILLIAM DRUMMOND Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou a... WILLIAM DRUMMOND He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave WILLIAM DRUMMOND He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a s... WILLIAM DRUMMOND I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic. WILLIAM DRUMMOND There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than th... WILLIAM DRUMMOND Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings... WILLIAM DRUMMOND As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our le... WILLIAM DRUMMOND He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND Oh Ignorance
Thou art fall'n man's best friend! WILLIAM WATSON 1 And sanguine hope through every storm of life,
Shoots her bright beams, and calms the internal str... WILLIAM WATSON 1 Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure;
Each day of business has its hour of leisure. WILLIAM WATSON 1 The rills of pleasure never run sincere,
(Earth has no unpolluted spring)
From the cursed soil... WILLIAM WATSON 1 Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do. WILLIAM WATSON 1 Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting. WILLIAM WATSON 1 Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
[Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.] WILLIAM WATSON 1 He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and
he who dares not, is a slave. SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND (2) Be sober, and to doubt prepense,
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It is one thing when you see an athlete on TV say 'stay in scho... EDDIE DRUMMOND To beat a team of that caliber that has been so tough for us to beat, it's an accomplishment. EDDIE DRUMMOND It's as close to the real thing as you're going to get in August. EDDIE DRUMMOND The last couple of years, I wasn't as confident as I am now. EDDIE DRUMMOND If any political fund-raising events take place at a U2 concert, it is without the involvement or kn... JAMIE DRUMMOND If any political fundraising events take place at a U2 concert, it is without the involvement or kno... JAMIE DRUMMOND It is no substitute for an overall plan on aid and trade at the G8 summit, but this degree of cooper... JAMIE DRUMMOND It is no substitute for an overall plan on aid and trade at the G8 summit, but this degree of cooper... JAMIE DRUMMOND This very bold step builds momentum toward an historic breakthrough on aid and trade at the G8 summi... JAMIE DRUMMOND Neither DATA nor Bono are involved in these (fundraisers), and they cannot be controlled. The U2 con... JAMIE DRUMMOND If any political fundraising events take place at a U2 concert, it is without the involvement or kno... JAMIE DRUMMOND Neither DATA nor Bono are involved in these (fund-raisers), and they cannot be controlled. The U2 co... JAMIE DRUMMOND If any political fund-raising events take place at a U2 concert, it is without the involvement or kn... JAMIE DRUMMOND President Bush and Prime Minister Blair made great progress and Gordon Brown and John Snow agreed on... JAMIE DRUMMOND We drove a couple of miles to a pasture near his parents’ house and met up with the other early ri... REE DRUMMOND Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -Elizabeth 1. ELIZABETH 1 Behind, he hears Time's iron gates close faintly,
He is now far from them;
For he has reached ... JAMES DRUMMOND BURNS I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery an... DRUMMOND MONEY-COUTTS I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live. JAMES DRUMMOND BURNS I've never categorically been a banker. I had two internships while I was at university. The dec... DRUMMOND MONEY-COUTTS I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition... DRUMMOND MONEY-COUTTS I would wish eventually to be able to make television that informs and educates as well as entertain... DRUMMOND MONEY-COUTTS Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love. DRUMMOND MONEY-COUTTS Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes. DRUMMOND MONEY-COUTTS I think there's a huge amount of magic on television, which is slightly vapid: there's no re... DRUMMOND MONEY-COUTTS Ten years ago, TV cookery shows were about a man or a woman following recipes. Now, it's all abo... DRUMMOND MONEY-COUTTS Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it. DRUMMOND MONEY-COUTTS I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investig... DRUMMOND MONEY-COUTTS From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal. DRUMMOND MONEY-COUTTS Their only labour was to kill the time;
And labour dire it is, and weary woe,
They sit, they l... JAMES THOMSON (1) Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How ta... JAMES THOMSON (1) So 'ere the storm of war broke out,
Religion spawn'd a various rout
Of petulant capricious sec... SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Synods are mystical Bear-gardens.
Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens,
And other Members of... SAMUEL BUTLER (1) 'Tis not antiquity, nor author,
That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For truth is precious and divine;
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Is not the winding up witnesses,
And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?
For witnesses, like... SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He knew whats'ever 's to be known,
But much more than he knew would own. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Nor do I know what is become
Of him, more than the Pope of Rome. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Deep sighted in intelligence,
Ideas, atoms, influences. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He knew what's what, and that's as high
As metaphysic wit can fly. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) But through the heart
Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse,
'Tis then delightful misery no m... JAMES THOMSON (1) Nothing's more dull and negligent
Than an old, lazy government,
That knows no interest of stat... SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. ECCLESIASTES 11:1 He ne'er consider'd it as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth,
And very wisely would lay fo... SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The truest characters of ignorance
Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The trenchant blade Toledo trusty.
For want of fighting was grown rusty,
And ate into itself f... SAMUEL BUTLER (1) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;
For he, by geometric scale,
... SAMUEL BUTLER (1) And wisely tell what hour o' th' day
The clock does strike by Algebra. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like
a turnip. There is nothing good ... SAMUEL BUTLER (1) In ancient times, the sacred Plough employ'd
The Kings and awful Fathers of mankind:
And some,... JAMES THOMSON (1) The self-same thing they will abhor
One way, and long another for. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe:
With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,
... JAMES THOMSON (1) In a cottage I live, and the cot of content,
Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,
Ar... JOHN COLLINS (1) Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick
(Though he gave his name to our Old Nick). SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Even from the body's purity, the mind
Receives a secret sympathetic aid. JAMES THOMSON (1) Like feather-bed betwixt a wall
And heavy brunt of cannon ball. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) And force them, though it was in spite
Of Nature and their stars, to write. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Authority is never without hate. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains
in place while all the lesser star... SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain,
... SAMUEL BUTLER (1) I've heard old cunning stagers
Say, fools for arguments use wagers. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is no fo... SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Whatever Sceptic could inquire for,
For every why he had a wherefore. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat;
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Cheered up himself with ends of verse
And sayings of philosophers. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) While I deduce,
From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings,
The symphony of spring. JAMES THOMSON (1) Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave. JAMES THOMSON (1) Where entity and quiddity,
The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For zeal's a dreadful termagant,
That teaches saints to tear and cant. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For now the field is not far off
Where we must give the world a proof
Of deeds, not words. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He was in Logic, a great critic,
Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;
He could distinguish, and div... SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The worst of rebels never arm
To do their king or country harm,
But draw their swords to do th... SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Through thick and thin. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Why should not Conscience have vacation
As well as other Courts o' th' nation?
Have equal powe... SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd
That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction:
... JOHN BROWN (1) Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) 'Tis silence all,
And pleasing expectation. JAMES THOMSON (1) H' had got a hurt
O' th' inside of a deadlier sort. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) 'Tis true no lover has that pow'r
T' enforce a desperate amour,
As he that has two strings t' ... SAMUEL BUTLER (1)