Remoter Quotes
12 quotes by 12 authors
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The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and…
— William James
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No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste…
— William Buckland
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Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but…
— Charles Lamb
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The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial…
— Edmund Burke
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The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.
— C.S. Lewis
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Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold…
— Samuel Johnson
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The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a…
— William Wordsworth
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As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
— Clarence Day
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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It…
— Thomas Hardy
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I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that it was the…
— Haruki Murakami
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It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set…
— Joshua Chamberlain
Who Wrote These Remoter Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 12 Remoter Quotes as follows: