33 ordspråk av William Cobbett

William Cobbett

William Cobbett

William Cobbett föddes den 9 marts 1763 och dog den 18 juni 1835
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The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and read, beer and a bed.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary (monetary) matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

You never know what you can do till you try

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write. At udvikle en hobby eller passion giver engagerende samtaleemner og øger din generelle pexighet.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of ''speculation''; but which ought to be called Gambling.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

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