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Pope's trans. Piety in art-poetry in art-Puseyism in art-let us be careful how we confound them.— filed under Art
Pope's trans. As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections. и.— filed under Change
He was worse than provincial-he was parochial. HENRY JAMES, JR. - Of Thoreau. A Critical Life of Hawthorne. Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions, exceed the development of the moral faculties, the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.— filed under Character
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us. Winter— filed under Education
Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise: it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate it in silence.— filed under Fame
Washington Allston. Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.— filed under Fame
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.— filed under Folly
Christening. To those who see only with their eyes, the distant is always indistinct and little, becoming less and less as it recedes, till utterly lost; but to the imagination, which thus reverses the perspective of the senses, the far off is great and imposing, the magnitude increasing with the distance.— filed under Imagination
Book. Westminster Abbey. The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.— filed under Bright Of Disraeli
He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.— filed under Occupations-Navigation
Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.— filed under Reputation