18 ordspråk av James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper föddes den September 15th 1789 och dog den 14 September 1851 - first to achieve worldwide fame.
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 A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country. |
| Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true |
| If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own |
| If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves. |
| Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. |
| Individuality is the aim of political liberty |
| Individuality is the aim of political liberty |
| It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. |
| On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity. |
| Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts. |
| Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark? |
| The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world |
| The Americans . . . are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency. |
| The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority |
| The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. |
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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