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A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts. - [History] A single breaker may recede; but the tide is coming in. - [Future] All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings. - [Egotism] And she (the Roman Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigor, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. - [Churches] As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom. - [Freedom] At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling. - [Novels] At the time when that odious style which deforms the writings of Hall and of Lord Bacon was almost universal, had appeared that stupendous ivory, the English Bible,--a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. - [Bible] Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety. - [Beard] Boswell is the first of biographers. - [Biography] Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor. - [Extremes] Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry. - [Egotism] Complete self-devotion is woman's part. - [Devotion] Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of their hats and their coaches; take some other kind of wickedness under their patronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors. - [Morality] Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages. - [Knowledge] Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down. - [Bigotry] Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value; and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty. - [History] Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered, from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action. - [Apothegms] Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances. - [Finesse] Footprints of history on the pages of time. - [Monuments] Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses. - [Genius] Good by reason of its exceeding badness. - [Critics] Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received. - [Greatness] Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless. - [Grief] Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance. - [Knowledge] He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. - [Poetry] Displaying page 1 of 5 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5
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