Multitudes Quotes

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Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who… — Joshua Reynolds
The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and… — Polybius
When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising… — Frank Laubach
The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn… — Thomas Hartwell Horne
You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger painting. But not… — Richard Schmid
The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to… — Eugene O'Neill
How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A… — John Muir
A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form. — Taliesin
Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on one another make… — John Muir
You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data,… — Tan Le
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away… — Thomas Merton
Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating â€” real in a generation of triflers â€” true amongst a multitude of… — William Morley Punshon
If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a… — Charles de Lint
Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and… — Amos Bronson Alcott
If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders. — William Hazlitt
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It… — Saul Bellow
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition;… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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