Quote

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

James F. Cooper

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

James F. Cooper
Love
Like
Brightness
Imaginary
Surround
Heroes
Atmosphere
Hero
History

More quotes by James F. Cooper

Image
Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.
James F. Cooper
Image
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
James F. Cooper
Image
Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?
James F. Cooper
Image
How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.
James F. Cooper
Image
Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of a forest, child?
James F. Cooper
Image
I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.
James F. Cooper
Image
Individuality is the aim of political liberty.
James F. Cooper
Image
We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes.
James F. Cooper
Image
It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.
James F. Cooper
Image
Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.
James F. Cooper
Image
A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.
James F. Cooper
Image
If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property if we have property, we must have its rights if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.
James F. Cooper
Image
tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.
James F. Cooper
Image
Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.
James F. Cooper
Image
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
James F. Cooper
Image
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
James F. Cooper
Image
A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.
James F. Cooper
Image
Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.
James F. Cooper
Image
We are all human, and all do wrong.
James F. Cooper
Image
I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it up after a war, because we can't help it-unless it be that the last is the most manful and honourable.
James F. Cooper