OLIVE OPINION
OLIVE
Olea Europcea
See there the olive grove of Academe,
Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird
Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
OPINION
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Jane Austen—Mansfield Park. Ch. XI.
Facts are cheels that winna ding,
An' downa be disputed.
Burns—A Dream.
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| text = <poem>Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion,
That grace is founded in dominion.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto III. L. 1,173.
With books and money placed, for show
Like nest eggs, to make clients lay,
And for his false opinion pay.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. III. Canto III. L. 624.
For most men (till by losing rendered sager)
Will back their own opinions by a wager.
Byron—Beppo. St. 27.
Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.
George Chapman—Bvssy d'Ambois. Act I. Sc. 1.
Omni autem in re oonsensio omnium gentium lex naturae putanda est.
But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.
Cicero—Tusc. Quoest. I. 13. 30.
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| text = <poem>Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.
Dryden—Absalom and Achitophel. I. 545.
As the saying is, So many heades, so many wittes.
Queen Elizabeth—Godly Meditacyon of the Christian Sowle. (1548)
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| text = <poem>Intolerant only of intolerance.
I. S. S. G. in Eraser's Mag. Aug., 1863. Article on Mr. Buckle in the East.
It is not often that an opinion is worth expressing, which cannot take care of itself.
Holmes—Medical Essays. 211.
Denique non omnes eadem mirantur amantque.
All men do not, in fine, admire or love the
same thing.
Horace—Epistles. II. 2. 58.
Monuments of the safety with which errors of
opinion may be tolerated where reason is left
free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson—First Inaugural Address.
March 4, 1801.
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| text = Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth.
Jerrold—Man Made of Money. In the Wit
and Opinions of Jerrold. P. 28. Attributed
to Dean Mansel by Burgon in Lives of
Twelve Good Men.
How long halt ye between two opinions?
I Kings. XVIII. 21.
We hardly find any persons of good sense save
those who agree with us.
La Rochefoucauld—Maxims. 347.
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| text = The deep slumber of a decided opinion.
Thoughts for the Cloister and Crowd. London,
1835. P. 21. Quoted by Mill—Liberty.
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself
to be espoused at the expense of life.
Montaigne—Of Good and Evil. Ch. XL.
There never was in the world two opinions
alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains;
the most universal quality is diversity.
Montaigne—Essays. Of the Resemblance of
Children to their Fathers.
II opine du bonnet comme un moine en
Sorbonne.
He adopts the opinion of others like a monk
in the Sorbonne.
Pascal—Lettres Provinciales. II.
La force est la reine du monde, et non pas
Popinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la
force.
Force and not opinion is the queen of the
world; but it is opinion that uses the force.
Pascal—Pens&es. Art. XXIV. 92.
Delia opinione regina del mondo.
Opinion is the queen of the world.
Pascal quotes this as the title of an Italian
work.
He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the
Senate upon any other point whatever, without
adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]
Plutarch—Life of Cato the Censor.
Some praise at morning what they blame at
night,
But always think the last opinion right.
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I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people,
Which would be worn now in their newest
Not cast aside so soon.
Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 7. L. 32.
