Quotes by John Sterling

John Sterling

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Believe

Men

School

An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.

Patents

Scales

Truth

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

Giving

Life Is

Receiving

Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation–the realization of an idea by an act of the will.

Color

Ideas

Men

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

Color

Feelings

Men

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

Made

Mistress

Wind

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

Clothes

Compliment

Lying

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Elements

Emotional

Leading On

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Laughter

Self

Tears

Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.

Beautiful

Reality

Sacrifice

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Giving

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Quotes by John Sterling

John Sterling

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.

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