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Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that every step of…

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Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.
In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing…
Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until…
The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to…
No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.
The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.
The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that…
Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of…
The typical modern has the look of the hunted.
Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate…
The hero can never be a relativist.
The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the…

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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination… — Jane Austen
An artist cannot do anything slovenly. — Jane Austen
Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that… — Richard M. Weaver
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life. — Brenda Ueland
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a… — Hermann Hesse
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule… — Winston Churchill

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