Thomas Starr King
Thomas Starr King
Thomas Starr Kingwas an American Unitarian minister, influential in California politics during the American Civil War, and Freemason. Starr King spoke zealously in favor of the Union and was credited by Abraham Lincoln with preventing California from becoming a separate republic. He is sometimes referred to as "the orator who saved the nation."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth17 December 1824
CountryUnited States of America
book needs genius
By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us.
history known worth year
What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.
man
The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.
I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings.
california came cotton northern
I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.
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Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.
privilege
What a privilege it is to be an American!
wind long ashes
The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish.
writing hands blind
Nature never writes a blind hand.
mad pounds
Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.
flower italian greek
Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.
life giving matter
Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build an opinion or custom on what you guess is true. Make it a matter of certainty and science.
lying feelings perception
A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies.
nature finals use
Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.