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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality [Reading] Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. - Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality [Knowledge] The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship. - Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality [Truth] The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century. - Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality [Shakespeare] We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. - Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality [Quotations] We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. - Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality [Books] When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life." - Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality [Plagiarism] If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read. - Letters and Social Aims--Quotations and Originality [Reading] All men are poets at heart. - Literary Ethics [Poets] Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. - Literary Ethics [Simplicity] Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. - Literary Ethics [Intellect] Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths Whence a smokeless incense breathes. - May Day (st. 1) [Spring] Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. - May Day and Other Pieces--Solution (l. 39) [Shakespeare] Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair. - May-day (l. 439) [Echo] And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. - Mayday [Progress] Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise. - Merlin [Paradise] When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it. - Method of Nature [Genius] For the world was built in order Around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon. - Monadnock (st. 12) [Order] Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. - Montaigne [Belief] My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound! - My Garden (st. 3) [Gardens] Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. - Nature (ch. III) [Light] Ants never sleep. - Nature (ch. IV) [Ants] Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold? - Ode to Beauty (st. 1) [Beauty] Go put your creed into your deed, Not speak with double tongue. - Ode--Concord [Deeds] If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. - Of the American Scholar, in "Nature Addresses and Lectures" [Success] Displaying page 36 of 39 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 [36] 37 38 39
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