Browsing Quotes, page 121
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You writers must pick a subject that suits your powers, giving lengthy thought to what your shoulders are built for and what they aren’t. If your choice of theme is within your scope, you won’t have to seek for fluent speech or lucid arrangement.
Arrangement’s virtue and value reside, if I’m not mistaken, in this: to say right now what has to be said right now, postponing and leaving out a great deal for the present.Speaker: HoracePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Avoiding a fault will lead to error if art is missing.
Speaker: HoracePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Whenever people arguing on the same theory do not reach the same conclusion, you may be sure that they do not know what they are talking about.
Speaker: HippocratesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As the cover is made to fit the shield and the scabbard to fit the sword, so everything in nature, except the universe itself, has been created to serve something other than itself.
Speaker: CiceroPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A flowing river cannot be so easily polluted as a standing pool. A full discourse washes away the scum of criticism, but the circle of a closed argument cannot so easily preserve its pristine purity.
Speaker: CiceroPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[Regarding the human race] “earthbound at the misty bottom of the universe.”
Speaker: CiceroPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The crux of the matter is known to all men everywhere. From the birth it is inscribed upon their minds that gods exist.
Speaker: CiceroPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The unseemly remark lightly dropped results in conduct of like kind.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not Fortune’s business to make a state sound; that is a task for knowledge and deliberate choice.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Character is the kind of thing which discloses the nature of a choice.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If someone were to apply exquisitely beautiful colors at random he would find less pleasure than if he had outlined an image in black and white.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Well-being and ill-being reside in action, and the goal of life is an activity, not a quality.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is admirable, complete and possesses magnitude…effecting through pity and fear the purification of such emotions.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If something is worth doing once, it is worth doing twice.
Speaker: Kevin TwitchellPosted: 18 Aug 2008 at 8:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Focus isn’t saying yes to the right things, it’s saying no to everything else.
Speaker: UnknownPosted: 07 Aug 2008 at 7:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He had been near death so many times that he had lost any fear of living.
Speaker: Isabelle Allende, "Zorro"Posted: 28 Jul 2008 at 10:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Thirty spokes share the wheel’s hub
It is the center hole that makes it useful.
Shape clay into a vessel
It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room
It is the holes which make it useful.
Therefore benefit comes from what is there
Usefulness from what is not there.Speaker: ??Posted: 25 Jul 2008 at 7:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Always look for the simplest solution to any problem.
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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 15 Jul 2008 at 10:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 13 Jul 2008 at 10:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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