Ancient Quote by Isaac D'Israeli Download Open image “Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.” — Isaac D'Israeli ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Ancient Furniture Centuries Centuries Worm Century Furniture Furniture Mind Mind Psychology Solidity Solidity Ancient Worms
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“It's ridiculous. Here I sit in my little room, I, Brigge, who have got to be twenty-eight years old and about whom no one… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
No one knows why, but second only to eating the brains of the living, the dead love affordable prefab furniture. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
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Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers,… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
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I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
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So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
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My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
