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- Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
- All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be…
- Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long…
- Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their…
- Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
- There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.
- I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
- Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting…
- A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make…
- It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry…
- The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.
- The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as…
- I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is…
- Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every…
- I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing...
- There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast.…
- A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
- It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place,…
- The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
- No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in…
- No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All…
- In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm…
- Noone can do me any good by loving me, I have more love than I need or could do any good with, but people do…
- I love Coleridge ... and I am very willing to allow that he has more imagination than Wordsworth, and more of thereal poet. But after…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle