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John Brown Quotes - Page 2

There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.

There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.

John Brown
Country, Memories, Lying

I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.

John Brown
Balls, Faces, Shots

Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

John Brown
Writing, Mean, White

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

John Brown
Mother, Body, Tongue
Horae Subsecivae Series I, Introduction

So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves.

John Brown
Bible, Heart, Expression
John Brown (1797). “The posthumous works of the late Rev. Mr. John Brown, minister of the Gospel at Haddington: with short memoirs, and a summary of what he uttered in his last illness”, p.20

I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, - being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.

John Brown
Views, Cheerful, Purpose
James Redpath, John Brown (1860). “The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth”, p.351

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