A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward |
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... feeling eventuates in some form of action . Action is the right outlet of emotion . 27 Henry Ward Beecher : Proverbs ... feels instinctively that all the beautiful senti- ments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action . Lowell ...
... feeling eventuates in some form of action . Action is the right outlet of emotion . 27 Henry Ward Beecher : Proverbs ... feels instinctively that all the beautiful senti- ments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action . Lowell ...
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... feeling than this , of admiration for one higher than himself , dwells in the breast of man . It is to this hour , and at all hours , the vivifying influence in man's life . 52 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship . The Hero as Divinity ...
... feeling than this , of admiration for one higher than himself , dwells in the breast of man . It is to this hour , and at all hours , the vivifying influence in man's life . 52 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship . The Hero as Divinity ...
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... feeling , not of years . George William Curtis : Prue and I. VI . Tit- bottom's Spectacles . There are three supreme agonies in life : the agony of jeal- ousy , the agony of fearing you have mistaken your talents , and the agony of ...
... feeling , not of years . George William Curtis : Prue and I. VI . Tit- bottom's Spectacles . There are three supreme agonies in life : the agony of jeal- ousy , the agony of fearing you have mistaken your talents , and the agony of ...
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... feeling will not . 141 Henry Ward Beecher : Life Thoughts . Fire hath its force abated by water , not by wind ; and anger must be allayed by cold words , and not by blustering threats . 142 Anne Bradstreet : Printed in 1867 from a MS ...
... feeling will not . 141 Henry Ward Beecher : Life Thoughts . Fire hath its force abated by water , not by wind ; and anger must be allayed by cold words , and not by blustering threats . 142 Anne Bradstreet : Printed in 1867 from a MS ...
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... feel art than to understand it ; and they sometimes mistake that emotion which a work of art calls forth for essential characteristics of the work itself . 209 George S. Hillard : Six Months in Italy . Ch . 29 . Travellers in Italy and ...
... feel art than to understand it ; and they sometimes mistake that emotion which a work of art calls forth for essential characteristics of the work itself . 209 George S. Hillard : Six Months in Italy . Ch . 29 . Travellers in Italy and ...
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Page 109 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Page 57 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 387 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Page 457 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 418 - I will compose poetry". The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...
Page 463 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 546 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Page 326 - There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is — to teach; the function of the second is — to move: the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
Page 445 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school : and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Page 120 - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast ! O strange ! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.