John Armstrong Professions : British writer/philosopher Born : 1966 Browse All Authors Top 48 quotes by John Armstrong Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain. John Armstrong carpe-diem pain grief Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too. John Armstrong support health mind For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds. John Armstrong care science death One’s relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one’s sense of identity, it shapes one’s attitude to other people, it connects and splits generations; money is the arena in which greed and generosity are played out, in which wisdom is exercised and folly committed. Freedom, desire, power, status, work, possession: these huge ideas that rule life are enacted, almost always, in and around money. John Armstrong color attitude ideas How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend. John Armstrong deities dream sleep For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, unenjoy'd. Hence to this peopled earth, which, that extinct, That flame for propagation, soon would roll A lifeless mass, and vainly cumber heaven. John Armstrong flames earth heaven We need to be free if we are to love. John Armstrong ifs needs The most beautiful form of compromise is forgiveness. John Armstrong compromise form beautiful Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind. John Armstrong peru mankind life Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness. John Armstrong buoyancy serenity way Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd John Armstrong wells wish heaven Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds. John Armstrong air wind firsts You don't ask a juggler which ball is highest in priority. Success is to do it all. John Armstrong priorities balls asks When the tribal groups of december trade John Armstrong nature song country Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion. John Armstrong demand imagination views Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame. John Armstrong revenge mean sex The athletic fool, to whom what heaven denied of soul, is well compensated in limbs. John Armstrong athletic soul heaven If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day. John Armstrong luxury bed secret The blood, the fountain whence the spirits flow The generous stream that waters every part, And motion, vigor, and warm life conveys To every particle that moves or lives. John Armstrong water blood moving Toil, and be strong; by toil the flaccid nerves John Armstrong vapid strong blood
