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“The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.” quote by Thomas B. Macaulay — Download Open image

“The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.”

Thomas B. Macaulay

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A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.

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Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

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Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the Turkey carpet out of which a picture might be made. There are words in Mr. Montgomery's writing which, when disposed in certain orders and combinations,have made, and will make again, good poetry. But, as they…

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The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

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Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north, With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? And wherefore doth…

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Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

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In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when scarcely a thatched roofed hut stood on what was later the site of Rome, this contemned people had their fenced cities and cedar palaces, their splendid Temple, their fleets of merchant ships, their schools of sacred…

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Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider…

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My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I keep a notebook with me at all times and the only criteria for anything making it into that notebook is if it stops me in my tracks for even an instant, if it catches my eye or my…

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A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater objectivity of the photograph in order to correct my own way of seeing: for instance, if I draw an object from nature, I start to stylize and to change it in accordance with my personal vision…

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