Thomas Campbell Quotes & Sayings

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. — Thomas Campbell

What millions died that Caesar might be great! — Thomas Campbell

Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man. — Thomas Campbell

I'll meet the raging of the skies, but not an angry father. — Thomas Campbell

Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent — Thomas Campbell

The being level speaks the language of art, music, color shape and pattern directly
a language that requires no words
is not limited by words
nor does it have the specificity of words and thus cannot be broken onto parts that can be manipulated or analyzed by the intellect. It must be swallowed, whole not parsed, sorted and justified. — Thomas Campbell

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. — Thomas Campbell

One moment may with bliss repay Unnumbered hours of pain. — Thomas Campbell

Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all. — Thomas Campbell

Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree
It has been, and shall be, the land of the free. — Thomas Campbell

Your belief systems limit your reality to a sub-set of the solution space that does not contain the answer. — Thomas Campbell

Ye are brothers, ye are men, and we conquer but to save. — Thomas Campbell

It's not about the body; you are consciousness. That's what you are. Your consciousness is already out of your body. You don't need to get out of your body, you just need to get into your consciousness. — Thomas Campbell

A stoic of the woods,
a man without a tear. — Thomas Campbell

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye. — Thomas Campbell

His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest. — Thomas Campbell

Love's a fire that needs renewal Of fresh beauty for its fuel. — Thomas Campbell

Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument. — Thomas Campbell

On Linden, when the sun was low,
All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,
And dark as winter was the flow
Of Iser, rolling rapidly. — Thomas Campbell

Men of England! who inheritRights that cost your sires their blood. — Thomas Campbell

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. — Thomas Campbell

Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,Whose truths electrify the sage. — Thomas Campbell

Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze! — Thomas Campbell

For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb. — Thomas Campbell

The only thing that is fundamental (real) is consciousness itself; all else is virtual- i.e., a result of an exchange of information within consciousness. — Thomas Campbell

The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return. — Thomas Campbell

A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked. — Thomas Campbell

Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo. — Thomas Campbell

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin. — Thomas Campbell

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. — Thomas Campbell

To bear is to conquer our fate. — Thomas Campbell

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own. — Thomas Campbell

Tomorrow let us do or die! — Thomas Campbell

Love! the surviving gift of Heaven, The choicest sweet of Paradise, In life's else bitter cup distilled. — Thomas Campbell

United States, your banner wears Two emblems
one of fame; Alas! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame. Your banner's constellation types White freedom with its stars, But what's the meaning of the stripes? They mean your negroes' scars. — Thomas Campbell

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art. — Thomas Campbell

Beauty's witching sway is now to me a star that's fallen-a dream that's passed away. — Thomas Campbell

The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything. — Thomas Campbell

Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name. — Thomas Campbell