Samuel Laman Blanchard quotes

The scarcity of truth is atoned for by the abundance of affidavits; if a rumor be impugned, its veracity is easily strengthened by additional emphasis of affirmation, until at last "everybody says so," and then it is undeniable. (Samuel Laman Blanchard)
What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body? View quote
Samuel Laman Blanchard
Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious and profitable to a modern cultivator of systems and syllables, in pamphlets, magazines, and folios, is the right of Quotation. View quote
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Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment-"Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!" View quote
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So, in our wisdom and fair justice we go on-"Giving to dust that is a little gilt, More laud than gold e'er dusted;" proclaiming the merits of the bad wine, and making it, by every token, as enticing as we can; and blessing our stars that the good will be found out by its flavor "without our stir." As it is inestimable, we seek not to win esteem for it; as it is beyond all praise, we bestow no praises upon it. View quote
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Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own- 'T is "love in Idleness." View quote
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Man will take anything you like, except warning. View quote
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We feel bound to be punctual and conscientious with those we are indifferent about; while we can afford at any time, on the frostiest night, to be an hour after our appointment with the single gentleman who occupies an apartment in our heart's core. View quote
Samuel Laman Blanchard
When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity. View quote
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It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his. View quote
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Everybody's word is worth Nobody's taking. (Samuel Laman Blanchard)
Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity . View quote
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How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again! View quote
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As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not. View quote
Samuel Laman Blanchard
Of Shakespeare, not a line but has been repeatedly, and will continue to be cited, as a commentary on the great and various volume of human nature. View quote
Samuel Laman Blanchard
Wherever two or three are gathered together, one, at least, has left his head at home in his night-cap, or hung it up in his hat as he entered. View quote
Samuel Laman Blanchard
We insist on self-roasting, by slow degrees, and at regular intervals, to show our contempt for experience, and to develop our chief virtue, which is obstinacy. View quote
Samuel Laman Blanchard
Rumors confirm themselves when duly circulated. View quote
Samuel Laman Blanchard
No longer would we imprison thee though thou art all gentleness and would chat and jest with us by the hour. View quote
Samuel Laman Blanchard
Credulity lives next door to Gossip. View quote
Samuel Laman Blanchard
A genuine taradiddle of the gross and palpable kind never fails for want of vouchers. Hundreds know it to be true-hundreds more were all but eye-witnesses of the fact related-some actually were; all can attest it on their personal responsibility. Upon that point everybody has a reputation for veracity to stake-though the same stake had been forfeited fifty times; and everybody can contribute to the original story an unquestionable incident of his own coinage "to make assurance doubly sure." So it goes round, until the first projector hardly recognizes his own lie; and ends by believing ten times more absurdity than he had palmed upon others. (Samuel Laman Blanchard)
Sooth't were a pleasant life to lead, With nothing in the world to do But just to blow a shepherd's reed, The silent season thro' And just to drive a flock to feed,- Sheep-quiet, fond and few! View quote
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Pope abounds in quotable things, chiefly from his habit of making every line rest on its own merits-a circumstance that accounts, in its turn, for the strong resemblance his couplets bear to each other. View quote
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Two hats, we grant, may be better than one; yet is one enough at a time. It is so with the head. It should be sole and self-relying. We like to wear ours in single blessedness on our own shoulders, and not let it hanker after a place on other people's. View quote
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Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids? View quote
Samuel Laman Blanchard

Samuel Laman Blanchard

Occupation: British Author
Born: May 15, 1804
Died: February 15, 1845
Quotes count: 36
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