4 Quotes & Sayings By Francis Beauchesne Thornton

Francis Beauchesne Thornton is a prolific author, best known for his work in the fields of history and American Indian affairs. Thornton was born on May 30, 1825, in Cornwall, Connecticut. He was educated at Yale University where he graduated in 1843 and later became a professor of classical languages at the University of Michigan. In 1851, he married Lucinda M Read more

Whitney and they had two children: Francis Beauchesne and Lucinda.

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If everyone could learn how to read books properly and how to use them as effective tools for daily living, the facilities of colleges could easily go out of existence without any loss to society.' -From a speech by the president of Mount Holyoke College, as reported in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, May 13, 1938 Francis Beauchesne Thornton
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The modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of interesting people or uninteresting people; they never, or seldom, indicate that there is and must be an interior and spiritual improvement in man before any of the glowing coals of humanity can be reached. They have cultivated everything but the goodness of man. The result of such shallowness is everywhere apparent. . Francis Beauchesne Thornton
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Poetry was not meant to be a workhorse; it was not designed to paint pretty moral pictures of life; it was not brought into being to confuse us with cryptograms, or high platitudes, or pompous pretensions. The poet was meant to be a seer; he was designed to run toward the intensities and magnificences of life, to bathe his hands in reality. But where the mystic ran toward Reality in silence and lost himself in it, the poet as soon as he had experienced it, ran back toward humanity crying the good news and putting it into shimmering webs of words. Francis Beauchesne Thornton