Great Author Quotes
26 quotes by 22 authors
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Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride…
— Anthony of Padua
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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of…
— James Dwight Dana
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[M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply…
— George Washington
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There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much…
— Eliza Haywood
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Seán Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with great authority while…
— Joe McNally
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Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.
— John Farrar
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Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then…
— Andre Maurois
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.
— Brian Johnson
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The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
— Andre Gide
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All great authors are seers.
— George Henry Lewes
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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living…
— Ross Perot
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I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is…
— Mark Twain
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No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks his aid more…
— George Washington
Who Wrote These Great Author Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 26 Great Author Quotes as follows: