MEMOIR OF JOHN L. MOTLEY, V1, O.W. HOLMES [OWH#11][oh11v10.txt]4725

All classes are conservative by necessity

Already looking forward to the revolt of the slave States

Attacked by the poetic mania

Becoming more learned, and therefore more ignorant

But not thoughtlessly indulgent to the boy

Cold water of conventional and commonplace encouragement

Could paint a character with the ruddy life-blood coloring

Emulation is not capability

Excused by their admirers for their shortcomings

Excuses to disarm the criticism he had some reason to fear

Fear of the laugh of the world at its sincerity

Fitted "To warn, to comfort, and command"

How many more injured by becoming bad copies of a bad ideal

Ignoble facts which strew the highways of political life

Indoor home life imprisons them in the domestic circle

Intellectual dandyisms of Bulwer

Kindly shadow of oblivion

Misanthropical, sceptical philosopher

Most entirely truthful child whe had ever seen

Nearsighted liberalism

No two books, as he said, ever injured each other

Not a single acquaintance in the place, and we glory in the fact

Only foundation fit for history,--original contemporary document

Radical, one who would uproot, is a man whose trade is dangerous

Sees the past in the pitiless light of the present

Self-educated man, as he had been a self-taught boy

Solitary and morose, the necessary consequence of reckless study

Spirit of a man who wishes to be proud of his country

Studied according to his inclinations rather than by rule

Style above all other qualities seems to embalm for posterity

Talked impatiently of the value of my time

The dead men of the place are my intimate friends

The fellow mixes blood with his colors!

The loss of hair, which brings on premature decay

The personal gifts which are nature's passport everywhere

Twenty assaults upon fame and had forty books killed under him

Vain belief that they were men at eighteen or twenty

Weight of a thousand years of error

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