"Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close…" — Edwin Percy Whipple

"Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side."

— Edwin Percy Whipple

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28 Quotes by Edwin Percy Whipple

Edwin Percy Whipple has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings…
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is…
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius…
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one…
Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill…
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it…
Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when…
Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape…
A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as…

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It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I have always drawn strength from being close to home. — Arthur Ashe
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone… — David Attenborough
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and… — Margaret Atwood
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,… — Diane Ackerman
What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will… — Teresa of Avila
A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are,… — Lauren Bacall
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way… — Richard Bach
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you… — Francis Bacon
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture… — Anita Baker
I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master?… — Christian Bale

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