Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams. — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours. — Amanda Smith Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of… — Joseph Kastein Copy Share Image
For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“In brief, the very quintessence of all meditative concentrations of both the sutras and the tantras of the great vehicle is to… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned with perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim… — Cecelie Berry Copy Share Image
The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas,… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance.… — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels. — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
While briskly to each patriot lip Walks eager round the inspiring flip; Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit The quintessence of public spirit! — John Trumbull Copy Share Image
Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to… — Paul Burch Copy Share Image
That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The Holy Eucharist is the perfect expression of the love of Jesus Christ for man since It is the quintessence of all… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
