John Stuart Blackie Quotes

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

John Stuart Blackie
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.

John Stuart Blackie
The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

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

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

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Chaos, Chaos, infinite wonder! Wheeling and reeling on wavering wings..

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Mammoth, Mammoth! mighty old Mammoth! Strike with your hatchet and cut a good slice; The bones you will find, and the hide of the mammoth, Packed in stiff cakes of Siberian ice.

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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.

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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.

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I'll sing you a ditty that needs no apology — Attend, and keep watch in the gates of your ears! — Of the famous new science which men call Geology, And gods call the story of millions of years.

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God hath made three beautiful things, Birds, and women, and flowers; And he on earth who happy would be Must look with love on all the three; But chiefly, in bright summer hours, He is wise who loves the flowers, And roams the fields with me.

John Stuart Blackie