Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The fires of refinement will shine the light of Christ into the dark places of our hearts, burn off the chaff, and… — Robin Bertram Copy Share Image
Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into a tender and subtle offering, what is… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Although our "gentle air" cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure… — Richard Mille Copy Share Image
Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
No one would say, 'Hey, I think this medicine works, go ahead and use it.' We have testing, we go to the… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
