John Jay Chapman Quotes about Character

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The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same

The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed on him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations - with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

John Jay Chapman

Character, Men, Ideas

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

John Jay Chapman

Happiness, Character, Emotion

John Jay Chapman (1974). “William Lloyd Garrison”, Beekman Books Incorporated

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

John Jay Chapman

Character, Long, Three

The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

John Jay Chapman

Character, Men, Sight

John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Politics”

John Jay Chapman Quotes about Character

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