Top 19 George Stillman Hillard Quotes

#1. There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

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#2. Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

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#3. Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

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#4. There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp.

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#5. Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

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#6. Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

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#7. Occupation is the armor of the soul.

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#8. For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust,
The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.

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#9. Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

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#10. The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.

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#11. Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

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#12. If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

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#13. The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

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#14. A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

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#15. Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

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#16. The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.

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#17. Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

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#18. A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

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#19. Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

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