Beauty Quote by James Vila Blake

Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have but narrow…

— James Vila Blake

Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard…

— James Vila Blake

Democracy has become, unless I mistake, a kind of test or shibboleth, by which we try men and measures; and this is the same…

— James Vila Blake

Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight,…

— James Vila Blake

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the…

— James Vila Blake

As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.

— James Vila Blake

An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more…

— James Vila Blake

This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace, To seek the truth in love, And to help one another.

— James Vila Blake

The greatness of common sense, and its title to reverence, appear in this, that it deals with vast complexity, that is, with the innumerable…

— James Vila Blake

Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a black and…

— James Vila Blake

when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets,…

— James Vila Blake

The fear of death has been raised too much and set up on high, especially by preachers, like the brazen serpent in the wilderness…

— James Vila Blake