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John Jay Chapman
American
Poet
About the author
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
John Jay Chapman,
American
Poet
#Will
#Teaching
#Talent
#Learning
#Benevolence
I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
John Jay Chapman,
American
Poet
#Want
#Earth
#Opinions
It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.
John Jay Chapman,
American
Poet
#Deep
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
John Jay Chapman,
American
Poet
#Life
#Truth
#America
#Cure
#Politics
#Conflict
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
John Jay Chapman,
American
Poet
#Vision
#Truth
#Mankind
A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.
John Jay Chapman,
American
Poet
#Focus
#Intellect
#Commerce
All progress is experimental.
John Jay Chapman,
American
Poet
#Progress
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
John Jay Chapman,
American
Poet
#Government
#Virtue
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
John Jay Chapman,
American
Poet
#Thinking
#Goodness
#Contemplation
#Victims
#Wickedness
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
John Jay Chapman,
American
Poet
#Years
#World
#Thought
#Politics
Too much agreement kills the chat.
John Jay Chapman,
American
Poet
#Agreement
Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.
John Jay Chapman,
American
Poet
#Action
#Reason
#Man
#Prejudice
#Corruption
#Machine
Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
John Jay Chapman,
American
Poet
#Unity
#Politics
#Hatred
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
John Jay Chapman,
American
Poet
#People
#Wonder
#Habit
#Sun
#Worry
People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
John Jay Chapman,
American
Poet
#Love
#People
#Forget
#Will
#Reform
#Hate
#Philosophy
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
John Jay Chapman,
American
Poet
#Past
#Present
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.
John Jay Chapman,
American
Poet
#World
#Reason
#Man
#Age
#Progress
#Fact
#Lie