"Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend"
- William Cowper
About this Quote
This quote by William Cowper speaks to the idea that individuals are often willing to fight for things that have no genuine value, while the facts that are essential to life are often ignored and disregarded. He is suggesting that individuals are frequently distracted by event and tradition, which they are willing to fight for these things even though they have no genuine worth. He is also implying that the facts that are important to life, such as morality, justice, and love, are often disregarded and not provided the attention they deserve. This quote is a reminder to us to concentrate on the things that really matter in life, and to not get too captured up in the trivialities of ceremony and tradition. It is a call to action to focus on the truths that are necessary to life, and to fight for them with the very same passion and dedication that we typically reserve for the shadows of no worth.
This quote is written / told by William Cowper between November 26, 1731 and April 25, 1800. He/she was a famous Poet from England.
The author also have 31 other quotes.
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"Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements"
"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself"
