William Robertson
William Robertson
New York-born politician who served as a Republican representative to the U.S. Congress from 1867 to 1869.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth10 October 1823
CityBedford, NY
act body gods men reference social
Every social act had a reference to the gods as well as to men, for the social body was not made up of men only, but of gods and men.
improved men refined
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
religious humble men
... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.
home men earth
A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.
strong believe men
To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing.
twilight heart men
Cold hearts are not anxious enough to doubt. Men who love will have their misgivings at times; that is not the evil. But the evil is, when men go on in that languid, doubting way, content to doubt, proud of their doubts, morbidly glad to talk about them, liking the romantic gloom of twilight, without the manliness to say,--I must and will know the truth. That did not John. Brethren, John appealed to Christ.
character greatness men
In these two things the greatness of man consists, to have God dwelling in us as to impart His character to us, and to have Him dwelling in us, that we recognize His presence, and know that we are His, and He is ours. The one is salvation; the other, the assurance of it.
men world he-man
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
men office soul
Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will." Let him force himself to abound in all small offices of kindliness, attention, affectionateness, and all these for God's sake. By and by he will feel them become the habit of his soul.
men mind charm
The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize them as wisdom which has passed across your own mind. You feel that they are your own thoughts come back to you...
beautiful mean men
What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them,-things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.
grief men soul
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.
believe men
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
forgiveness men forgiving
The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.