"The mistake we make is to turn upon……" — John Cowper Powys
"The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning."
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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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Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget…
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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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More Airily Quotes
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one of 9 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they…
— Quentin Crisp
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Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them.…
— Joe Conason
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Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.
— Margaret Mitchell
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You should have called us. Desmond would have picked you up.' 'No I wouldn't,' Valkyrie's dad said, stepping into earshot.…
— Derek Landy
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...it’d be like looking for a needle in a burning haystack.' 'Oh, I’ve done that,' Mark said airily. 'It’s a…
— Margaret Haddix
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Go Ahead, call me all the names you want," Sansa said airily. "You won't dare when I'm married to Joffrey.…
— George R. R. Martin
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Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government…
— Bernard Cornwell
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Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they…
— Unknown Author
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