"The most noble criticism is that in which……" — Isaac D'Israeli
"The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author."
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Isaac D'Israeli
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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 Antagonist Quotes
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The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of…
— Annie Besant
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
— Edmund Burke
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided…
— Joseph Addison
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The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a…
— James Madison
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which,…
— Nathaniel Branden
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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose…
— Eric Hobsbawm
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws…
— Joseph Addison
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