"The defects of great men are the consolation…" — Isaac D'Israeli
"The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces."
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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 Consolation Quotes
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The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit…
— Brendan Behan
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all…
— Edmund Burke
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If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one…
— George MacDonald
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Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason,…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to…
— Tryon Edwards
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For grief is crowned with consolation.
— William Shakespeare
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have…
— Albert Camus
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The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.…
— Khalil Gibran
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Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I…
— Charles Spurgeon
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In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
— Martin Luther
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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
— Josh Billings
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