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George Stillman Hillard quotes: Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

George Stillman Hillard quotes: There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp.

There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp.

George Stillman Hillard quotes: Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

George Stillman Hillard quotes: Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

George Stillman Hillard quotes: The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.

The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.

George Stillman Hillard quotes: Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

George Stillman Hillard quotes: A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

George Stillman Hillard quotes: If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

George Stillman Hillard quotes: A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

George Stillman Hillard quotes: For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust,The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.

For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust,
The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.

George Stillman Hillard quotes: Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

George Stillman Hillard quotes: Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

George Stillman Hillard quotes: Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

George Stillman Hillard quotes: Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

George Stillman Hillard quotes: Occupation is the armor of the soul.

Occupation is the armor of the soul.

George Stillman Hillard quotes: There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.