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A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel. - [Novels] A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. - [Flattery] A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. - [Progress] A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest. - [Dress] A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him. - [Ignorance] A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. - [Genius] A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present,--we do not feel or see or taste it. People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise? - [Fame] A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark. - [Conscience] A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. - [Mind] A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts. - [Contentment] A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles. - [Heart] Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come. - [Heaven] Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience. - [Innocence] And whatever you lend, let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again, and, if you can contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born. - [Lending] Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. - [Anger] Art does not imitate nature, but it founds itself on the study of nature,--takes from nature, the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz. the mind and the soul of man. - [Art] Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace. - [Art] Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect. - [Art] Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical. - [Ethics] As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish. - [Flirting] As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother. - [Death] Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life. - [Country] Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech. - [Eyes] Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe! - [Guilt] Better that the light cloud should fade away into heaven with the morning breath, than travail through the weary day to gather in darkness, and in storm. - [Death of Children] Displaying page 1 of 10 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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