Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize. John Stuart Blackie More Quotes by John Stuart Blackie More Quotes From John Stuart Blackie Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts. John Stuart Blackie wine tea water Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence. John Stuart Blackie plato simple order The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable. John Stuart Blackie religious men art Order is the law of all intelligible existence. John Stuart Blackie existence law order All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God. John Stuart Blackie fairs god law Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma. John Stuart Blackie earth drama heaven All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well. John Stuart Blackie truth use men A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing. John Stuart Blackie glasses shining eye Rocking on a lazy billow John Stuart Blackie wise sweet art Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude. John Stuart Blackie loner solitude men The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water John Stuart Blackie wise water men
