Quotes by John Mason Brown - Page 1

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
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Life
Success
Time
Ready
Waiting
Time I Am Me
Time Waiting I Am
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
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Funny
Women
America
Land
Men Women Where
Women Men America
Govern
Rule
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So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.
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Memories
Today
Tomorrow
Economies
Rob
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Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.
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Chewing
Chewing Gum
Eye
Gum
Television
Eyes
Programs
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He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
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Kings
Humorous
Play
Ace
Afraid
Played
He
Else
Would
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The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.
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Good
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Happiness
Purpose
Squandering
True Happiness
Happiness True Happiness True
True
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Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
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Becoming
Casts
Charm
Light
Most
Within
Woman
Glow
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Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.
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Women
Becoming
Light
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The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
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Men
Action
Indolence
Opinion
Trials
Critic
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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
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Eternal
Martyrdom
Way
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To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
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Criticism
People
Tattoo
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How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!
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Circles
Prophetic
Washington
Laid
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Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
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Education
Children
Reason
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What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
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Dream
Men
Thinking
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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
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Home
Causes
Heaven
Peril
Willing
Worthy
Good Cause
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I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.
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Enough
Long
Reality
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A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
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Communication
Remember
Want
Remembers
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I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
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Blood
Civil War
Land
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Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.
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Passion
Political
Witty
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The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.
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Mirrors
Vanity
Writing
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So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.
John Mason Brown / Author
Eye
Pride
Self
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She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown / Author
Education
Life
Purpose
Treats
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Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.
John Mason Brown / Author
Work
Order
People
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Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.
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Believe
Legends
People
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It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.
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Agony
Winning
Writing
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The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.
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Kids
Home
Book
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Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.
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Education
People
Sheep
Thinking
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No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.
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Happiness
Disappointment
Heart
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God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.
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Brainstorming
Curiosity
Propulsion
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The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited it, and the more people I interviewed there, the more I understood how prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid it out as a city that goes around in circles.
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Circles
Cities
People
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Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you...It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning.
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Men
Drama
Past
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What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.
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Bigger Better
Immersion
Joy
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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
John Mason Brown / Author
Friendship
Names
People
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