Quote #15973
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens...
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A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of...
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we...
Quote #26000
As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on...
Quote #32773
The end of man is knowledge but there’s one thing he can’t know. He...
Quote #15156
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify...
Quote #21290
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the...
Quote #1704
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and...
Quote #21173
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power...
Quote #1894
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom