Counterpoise Quotes
6 quotes by 6 authors
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Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw…
— Lewis Mumford
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LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise,…
— Blaise Pascal
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An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise…
— Edward Everett Hale
Who Wrote These Counterpoise Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 6 Counterpoise Quotes as follows: