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Roger Scruton has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between…
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Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of…
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Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history…
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There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions…
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State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure.…
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Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in…
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The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare…
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision…
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The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
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Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
— B. C. Forbes
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Everything we call a trial, a sorrow or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there, the gift is there, and…
— Giovanni Giocondo
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Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys…
— Robert Browning
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
— John Donne
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We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort…
— Pope Francis
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
— Jack Kornfield
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If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to…
— Nathaniel Cotton
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When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to…
— Baroness Orczy
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We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We…
— Jack Kornfield
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Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations. There is nothing so grievous to be borne…
— Jane Porter
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Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there…
— Charles Spurgeon
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