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Inspirational Quotations

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Inspirational Quotations by John Mason Brown

John Mason Brown (American Columnist, Journalist)

John Mason Brown (1900–69) was an American drama critic and author. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he graduated from Harvard College in 1923. He worked for the New York Evening Post from 1929 to 1941. He served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy during World War II, beginning in 1942. His book, To All Hands, documents his activities aboard the USS Ancon during Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily.

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Friends and Friendship

Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
—John Mason Brown

I am as content to die for God’s eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
—John Mason Brown

A critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Criticism

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Time, Time Management

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.
—John Mason Brown

What a man is is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Man

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Communication

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Revolution

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
—John Mason Brown

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Aspirations, Goals, Happiness

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Difficulties, Reality, Adversity

No man, with a man’s heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Happiness

So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by today’s economies.
—John Mason Brown

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Danger

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
—John Mason Brown

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