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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

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Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

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All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

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Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

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We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

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It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.

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A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

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The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.

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A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

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Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

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Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

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If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

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The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

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Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

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