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Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.
Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.
I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.
Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.
Movement is a fantastic privilege... but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet
We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.
When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.
There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.
Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.
It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.
The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.
This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.
The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.
The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.