It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism;… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
I grew up in New England. I think I was brought up with the Puritan ethic: that if you worked really hard… — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image
The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' to the awful, final act of suicide, that those… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the… — Ouida Copy Share Image
We have the reverse of the Puritan work ethic in America now. No one ever becomes a star by plugging along year… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Materialism blinds us to our spiritual poverty. Jesus rebuked the Laodicean Christians because although they were materially wealthy, they were desperately poor… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
