#multitude

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#break #establish #great #great minds #intellectual

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#days #fittest #knowledge #multitude #teach

Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins. ↗

— Mae West

#cover #dresses #long #multitude #say

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form. ↗

— Taliesin

#been #before #consistent #form #i

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#any #bewildered #considerable #face #finally

I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#ceasing #down #gold #happy #i

Riches cover a multitude of woes. ↗

— Menander

#multitude #riches #woes

When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him. ↗

— Origen

#act #away #come #go #go away

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder? ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#amid #contending #counsel #doubted #forward

I'm the weirdo. There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, that's not gonna make me happy. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#career #commercial #could #easier #gonna