A Quote by Charles James Fox
There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure.
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There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.
The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.
We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the young. It seems as if the eternal Lawgiver intended that, at a certain age, man should leave father, mother, and the dwelling of his infancy, to seek his fortunes over the wide world.
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
A meek spirit gives no trouble willingly to any: a quiet spirit bears all wrongs without being troubled.
To the wrongs that need resistance,
To the right that needs assistance,
To the future in the distance,
Give yourselves.
When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.
It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.
And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.
The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.
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