Top 50 Thomas Campbell Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

— Thomas Campbell

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2. “Tomorrow let us do or die!”

— Thomas Campbell

3. “Coming events cast their shadows before.”

— Thomas Campbell

4. “The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything.”

— Thomas Campbell

5. “It’s not about the body; you are consciousness. That’s what you are. Your consciousness is already out of your body. You don’t need to get out of your body, you just need to get into your consciousness.”

— Thomas Campbell

6. “Your belief systems limit your reality to a sub-set of the solution space that does not contain the answer.”

— Thomas Campbell

7. “Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

— Thomas Campbell

8. “O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.”

— Thomas Campbell

9. “Our purpose is to grow up and become love.”

— Thomas Campbell

10. “A stoic of the woods, – a man without a tear.”

— Thomas Campbell

11. “O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander’d there, To waft us home the message of despair?”

— Thomas Campbell

12. “Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument.”

— Thomas Campbell

13. “The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.”

— Thomas Campbell

14. “The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger’s troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.”

— Thomas Campbell

15. “Love’s a fire that needs renewal Of fresh beauty for its fuel.”

— Thomas Campbell

16. “For Beauty’s tears are lovelier than her smile.”

— Thomas Campbell

17. “On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I, No harp like my own could so cheerily play, And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.”

— Thomas Campbell

18. “Our land, the first garden of liberty’s tree – It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.”

— Thomas Campbell

19. “Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent.”

— Thomas Campbell

20. “The prophet’s mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world – a sacred gift to man.”

— Thomas Campbell

21. “The truth is not delicate; it will stand up to vigorous testing.”

— Thomas Campbell

22. “Who hath not own’d, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name.”

— Thomas Campbell

23. “Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you’re doing In my cheek’s pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo.”

— Thomas Campbell

24. “What millions died that Caesar might be great!”

— Thomas Campbell

25. “What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel visits, few and far between.”

— Thomas Campbell

26. “Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.”

— Thomas Campbell

27. “Triumphal arch, that fill’st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.”

— Thomas Campbell

28. “But sad as angels for the good man’s sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in.”

— Thomas Campbell

29. “Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!”

— Thomas Campbell

30. “Truth ever lovely – since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.”

— Thomas Campbell

31. “Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.”

— Thomas Campbell

32. “Fear is like mind-cancer; it is a disease of consciousness, a dysfunctional condition of ignorance trapped within a little picture.”

— Thomas Campbell

33. “The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!”

— Thomas Campbell

34. “One moment may with bliss repay Unnumbered hours of pain.”

— Thomas Campbell

35. “I’ll meet the raging of the skies, but not an angry father.”

— Thomas Campbell

36. “A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.”

— Thomas Campbell

37. “Love! the surviving gift of Heaven, The choicest sweet of Paradise, In life’s else bitter cup distilled.”

— Thomas Campbell

38. “Oh, how hard it is to find The one just suited to our mind!”

— Thomas Campbell

39. “Beauty’s witching sway is now to me a star that’s fallen-a dream that’s passed away.”

— Thomas Campbell

40. “The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.”

— Thomas Campbell

41. “An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I’m sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.”

— Thomas Campbell

42. “Big Truth, once understood and assimilated, always modifies your intent, and invariably leads to personal change.”

— Thomas Campbell

43. “Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o’er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep.”

— Thomas Campbell

44. “Men of England! who inheritRights that cost your sires their blood.”

— Thomas Campbell

45. “For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom’d each rustic tomb.”

— Thomas Campbell

46. “His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest.”

— Thomas Campbell

47. “He scorn’d his own, who felt another’s woe.”

— Thomas Campbell

48. “The quality of your being expresses the correctness of your understanding. Think.”

— Thomas Campbell

49. “Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save.”

— Thomas Campbell

50. “Who hail thee, Man! the pilgrim of the day, spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay.”

— Thomas Campbell