Quote #20
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
More from Wendell Phillips
- Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
- The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
- Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
- The heart is the best reflective thinker.
- It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.
- To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
- Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
- To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.