"Having once aroused in our mind enough faith……" — John Cowper Powys
"Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are few limitations to the happiness we may enjoy."
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15 Quotes by John Cowper Powys
John Cowper Powys has 15 quotes on this site.
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Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.
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To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky,…
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Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads…
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If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how…
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Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
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Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity…
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The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.
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What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a…
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To a real child anything will serve as a toy.
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A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island…
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Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.
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The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is…
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More Aroused Quotes
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In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached…
— Benjamin Carson
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God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the…
— Georges Clemenceau
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Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And…
— Andy Rooney
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No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].
— Edward Victor Appleton
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As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made…
— Edgar Cayce
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Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.
— Nelson Mandela
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Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one…
— Dale Carnegie
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and…
— Camille Paglia
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