Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845,) 1st Baronet was an English Member of Parliament, brewer, abolitionist and social reformer.
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Christianity is intensely practical — She has no trait more striking than her common sense.
—Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet
Topics: Christianity
You would think that, if our lips were made of horn, and stuck out a foot or two from our faces, kisses at any rate would be done for. Not so. No creatures kiss each other so much as birds.
—Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet
Stint yourself, as you think good, in other things; but don’t scruple freedom in brightening home. Gay furniture and a brilliant garden are a sight day by day, and make life blither.
—Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet
Topics: Home
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
—Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet
Topics: Enthusiasm, Strength, Winning, Winners
Intercourse is the soul of progress.
—Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet
Topics: Progress
I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not touch, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
—Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet
Topics: Perseverance, Persistence, Resolve, Endurance
The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, and a tight hand strength.
—Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet
I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.
—Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet
One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the by-standers cruel.
—Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet
Topics: Cruelty
So long as he must fight his way, the man of genius pushes forward, conquering and to conquer. But how often is he at last overcome by a Capua! Ease and fame bring sloth and slumber.
—Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet
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