The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. James F. Cooper More Quotes by James F. Cooper More Quotes From James F. Cooper Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter. James F. Cooper spring motivational friendship Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain. James F. Cooper rain attitude fall tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them. James F. Cooper hard looks world 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 selfishness men world 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 taught-us sublime justice 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 selfishness character men The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. James F. Cooper visionaries principles way 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 iron night death Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys. James F. Cooper new-york country lying Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage. James F. Cooper independence men mean God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst. James F. Cooper white spring men A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth. James F. Cooper flames soul men Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States. James F. Cooper united-states louisiana book A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it. James F. Cooper simplicity humanity country 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 opposites islands book On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. James F. Cooper events imagination time It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide, and, apparently, an impervious boundary of forests, severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict. James F. Cooper struggle war book Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English. James F. Cooper mutation variables language As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel. Give me children that's raised on good sound pork afore all the game in the country. Game's good as a relish and so's bread; but pork is the staff of life... My children I calkerlate to bring up on pork with just as much bread and butter as they want. James F. Cooper mother country children Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. James F. Cooper equality rights mean
