Baseness Quote by Philip Sidney Download Open image “Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.” — Philip Sidney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Baseness Career Dull Occupation Practice
Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You always need to be sharp and make sure you don't make mistakes. — Michael van Gerwen Copy Share Image
The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“All trades, arts, and handiwork have gained by division of labor, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself to a… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue;… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Stella, the only planet of my light, Light of my life, and life of my desire, Chief good, whereto my hope doth only aspire,… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions. — Roger Chamberlain Copy Share Image
