“There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde; which, in the commerce of world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour, but is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 222 of 303
“He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.”
“In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.”
“The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.”
“I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can't tell you how many people say, 'I've never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I'm splitting my ticket for you.' They're more engaged and thoughtful than we give them credit for.”
“Our words must seem to be inevitable.”
“In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.”
“I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .”
“The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.”
“For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?”
“It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.”
“No decision is, in itself, a decision.”
“The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.”
“That which is most personal, is most interesting.”
“The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.”
“The mind of your own enemy, the pupil, is working away from you, as keenly and eagerly as is the mind of the commander on the other side from the scientific general. Just what the respective enemies want and think, and what they know or do not know, are as hard things for the teachers as for the general to find out.”
“You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.”
“Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.”
“Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.”
“For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.”