"The ancients, who in these matters were not……" — Isaac D'Israeli
"The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory."
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53 Quotes by Isaac D'Israeli
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book,…
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Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
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The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares,…
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To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men…
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Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.
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The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
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Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.
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There is a society in the deepest solitude.
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The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
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If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have…
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More Ancients Quotes
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
— Saint Augustine
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
— Ambrose Bierce
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There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by…
— Rita Mae Brown
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Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who…
— Laozi
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Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods,…
— Mary Hunter Austin
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It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we…
— Herman Boerhaave
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What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.
— Sun Tzu
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The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut…
— Arthur Eddington
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