Thomas Campbell Quotes & Sayings

#1. I'll meet the raging of the skies, but not an angry father.

Thomas Campbell

#2. For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb.

Thomas Campbell

#3. Love! the surviving gift of Heaven, The choicest sweet of Paradise, In life's else bitter cup distilled.

Thomas Campbell

#4. Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree
It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.

Thomas Campbell

#5. Men of England! who inheritRights that cost your sires their blood.

Thomas Campbell

#6. United States, your banner wears Two emblems
one of fame; Alas! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame. Your banner's constellation types White freedom with its stars, But what's the meaning of the stripes? They mean your negroes' scars.

Thomas Campbell

#7. The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.

Thomas Campbell

#8. And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

Thomas Campbell

#9. Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.

Thomas Campbell

#10. The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything.

Thomas Campbell

#11. Tomorrow let us do or die!

Thomas Campbell

#12. A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.

Thomas Campbell

#13. Beauty's witching sway is now to me a star that's fallen-a dream that's passed away.

Thomas Campbell

#14. Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.

Thomas Campbell

#15. Ye are brothers, ye are men, and we conquer but to save.

Thomas Campbell

#16. An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

Thomas Campbell

#17. It's not about the body; you are consciousness. That's what you are. Your consciousness is already out of your body. You don't need to get out of your body, you just need to get into your consciousness.

Thomas Campbell

#18. The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

Thomas Campbell

#19. The only thing that is fundamental (real) is consciousness itself; all else is virtual- i.e., a result of an exchange of information within consciousness.

Thomas Campbell

#20. A stoic of the woods,
a man without a tear.

Thomas Campbell

#21. Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo.

Thomas Campbell

#22. To bear is to conquer our fate.

Thomas Campbell

#23. His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest.

Thomas Campbell

#24. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

#25. Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

Thomas Campbell

#26. On Linden, when the sun was low,
All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,
And dark as winter was the flow
Of Iser, rolling rapidly.

Thomas Campbell

#27. For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

Thomas Campbell

#28. Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!

Thomas Campbell

#29. Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name.

Thomas Campbell

#30. Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.

Thomas Campbell

#31. Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent

Thomas Campbell

#32. Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument.

Thomas Campbell