Arms Quote by John Armstrong

Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…

— John Armstrong

Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.

— John Armstrong

He knows enough, the mariner, who knows Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, What signs portend the storm: to subtler minds…

— John Armstrong

Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.

— John Armstrong

What Nature bids is good, is wise, and faultless we obey.

— John Armstrong

“But mostly what we think of as the 'meaning' of life concerns the style of the private autobiography we each write and which records…

— John Armstrong

You can't help people that don't want to be helped.

— John Armstrong

The most beautiful form of compromise is forgiveness.

— John Armstrong

We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the flaming barriers…

— John Armstrong

Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind.

— John Armstrong

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

— John Armstrong

Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and frowns of…

— John Armstrong