“It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.”
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Wise Quotes — page 206 of 916
“Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.”
“To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.”
“Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.”
“A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.”
“All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.”
“It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.”
“Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.”
“Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.”
“There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.”
“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
“Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.”
“Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.”
“I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.”
“Speech is great, but silence is greater.”
“The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.”
“Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.”
“All change is nothing but a decision. All decisions are controlled by what we link to pain and pleasure.”
“Time is the capital of your life, so spend it wisely.”
“All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.”