Josiah Go Quotes

#1. A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#2. The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

Josiah Warren

#3. Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

Josiah Strong

#4. Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Josiah Royce

#5. The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

Josiah Strong

#6. I'm loved by some, hated by many, envied by most, yet wanted by all. (Josiah)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, nominally Christian, deserve trust, confidence, or even respect, for the contrary is too often the case. Too often, men hold religion as they do property - in their wives' names.

David Josiah Brewer

#8. I see the clouds which now rise thick and fast upon our horizon, the thunder rolls, and the lightenings play, and to that God who rides on the whirlwind and directs the storm I commit my country.

Josiah Quincy

#9. I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

Josiah Royce

#10. For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.

Josiah Royce

#11. The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

Josiah Strong

#12. Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These are the properties of music and music has the ability to find us and move us and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can't.

Josiah Bartlett

#13. If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

Josiah Royce

#14. Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

David Josiah Brewer

#15. It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

Josiah Strong

#16. For a time, Greeley seemed to be following the historic advice he had once given young Josiah Grinnell: "Go West, young man, go West.

Harold Holzer

#17. We shouldn't have to go around congratulating each other for behaving with basic human dignity.

Josiah Bancroft

#18. This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

Josiah Warren

#19. Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly.

David Josiah Brewer

#20. No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.

Josiah Royce

#21. Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

Josiah Royce

#22. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#23. Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

Josiah Royce

#24. He believed true love was more like an education: it was deep and subtle and never complete. The

Josiah Bancroft

#25. [Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall]
[He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, ... to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition.

Josiah P. Mendum

#26. Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.

Josiah Strong

#27. He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.

Josiah Johnson Hawes

#28. The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.

Josiah Royce

#29. Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

Josiah Warren

#30. The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#31. So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

Josiah Royce

#32. It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Josiah Stamp

#33. When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.

Josiah Quincy

#34. For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

Josiah Royce