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- The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the…
- Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a…
- Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious:…
- Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you…
- It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.
- Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a…
- The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.
- Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And…
- Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.
- Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science;…
- An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's…
- 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…
- The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all…
- The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.
- The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then…
- The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.
- Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal…
- A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature…
- Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
- He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself…
- Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than…
- Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his…
- We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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