Samuel Mathers Quotes

It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy. ~ Samuel Johnson

Freed slaves returned to Africa settled in a section of what was known as the "Pepper Coast" and on July 26, 1847, issued a Declaration of Independence and established a constitution based on the political principles denoted in the United States Constitution. In doing so they established the independent Republic of Liberia. Law and Order was something the ruling class of Liberians prided themselves on. The Americo Liberians, as they called themselves, were uber-Conservatives and had a glorified picture of what the American government was like. As Conservatives they saw themselves living a privileged lifestyle, sustained by their faith in God and the blessings that had been bestowed upon them by this deity. Amongst themselves there was much talk about the subjects of freedom, liberty, democracy and independence. They felt that these idealisms were deserved because of their exceptionalism. Taking a page from the concept of American exceptionalism, they fantasied of their very own Liberian exceptionalism, completely forgetting the indigenous natives living among them. Whereas the Americo Liberians lived an affluent lifestyle reflecting the antebellum era in the Southern tier of the United States, the local blacks, for the greatest part lived in squalor. In 1980, a violent military coup shattered the way of life in Liberia. Led by army Master Sergeant Samuel Doe, the country's ruling group of Americo-Liberians were brutally overthrown and frequently executed. Doe's term as Presid ~ Hank Bracker

Greetings, Colonel. Please sit ~ Samuel Marquis

For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker. ~ Samuel Beckett

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit. ~ Samuel Johnson

It does not cost you any money to dream. ~ Samuel Odewale

ADIAPHORY (ADIA'PHORY) n.s.[Gr.]Neutrality; indifference. ~ Samuel Johnson

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me. ~ Samuel Beckett

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great. ~ Samuel Johnson

APOPHYGE (APO'PHYGE) n.s.[ flight, or escape.]Is, in architecture, that part of a column, where it begins to spring out of its base; and was originally no more than the ring or ferrel, which anciently bound the extremities of wooden pillars, to keep them from splitting, and were afterward imitated in stone work. We sometimes call it the spring of the column.Chambers. ~ Samuel Johnson

Colors sluiced the air with fugal patterns as a shape subsumed the breeze and fell, to form further on, a brighter emerald, a duller amethyst. Odors flushed the wind with vinegar, snow, ocean, ginger, poppies, rum. Autumn, ocean, ginger, ocean, autumn; ocean, ocean, the surge of ocean again, while light foamed in the dimming blue that underlit the Mouse's face. Electric arpeggios of a neo-raga rilled. ~ Samuel R. Delany

Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile. ~ Samuel Goldwyn

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. ~ Samuel Johnson

Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans to see the world in terms of good and evil to a much greater extent than most other peoples. ~ Samuel P. Huntington

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs. ~ Samuel Johnson

I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells! ~ Samuel Lover

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it ~ Samuel L. Jackson

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss. ~ Samuel Johnson

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. ~ Samuel Butler

Remorse weeps tears of blood. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[I]f you set out to mention everything you would never be done, and that's what counts, to be done, to have done. Oh, I know, even when you mention only a few of the things there are you do not get done either, I know, I know. But it's a change of muck. And if all muck is the same muck that doesn't matter, it's good to have a change of muck, to move from one heap to another, from time to time, fluttering you might say, like a butterfly, as if you were ephemeral. ~ Samuel Beckett

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed. ~ Samuel Johnson

So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the obligations of morality and pleases his vanity with enforcing them to others, concludes himself zealous in the cause of virtue. ~ Samuel Johnson

It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns. ~ Samuel Beckett

Have I nothing new, nothing diverting, in my whimsical way, thou askest in one of thy letters to entertain thee with? and thou tellest me that, when I have least to narrate, to speak in the scottish phrase, I am most diverting, a pretty compliment either to thyself , or to me, to both indeed! a sign that thou hast as frothy a heart as I a head ! ~ Samuel Richardson

Love from others is key in helping us to survive the loss of a particular love. With their support, we can endeavor to find a way of bearing the pain and going on without the person who has died - daring to go forward to trust in life again. ~ Julia Samuel

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement. ~ Samuel

There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be. It is his legal right, and no one can or dare question his exercise of that legal right. ~ Samuel Gompers

Sin does not leap upon us fully armed. It steals in through a look, a swift, silent suggestion or imagination, but love and loyalty to Jesus will make you watchful and swift to rise up and cast out the subtle enemy. Do this and you shall live, and live victoriously. ~ Samuel Logan Brengle

What is warranted by the direction of nature's light is warranted by the law of nature, and consequently by a divine law; for who can deny the law of nature to be a divine law? ~ Samuel Rutherford

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased. ~ Samuel Johnson

The nightmare Life-in-Death was she. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it ~ Samuel Johnson

Don't improve it into a flop! ~ Samuel Goldwyn

Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects ... ~ Samuel Adams

What I need now is stories, it took me a long time to know that, and I'm not sure of it. ~ Samuel Beckett