Society...Institutions...ARTS
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1061
“The monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?”
— Francis Bacon
ARTS, Knowledge
1062
“Books are ships which pass through the vast sea of time.” — Francis Bacon
ARTS, Knowledge
1063
“Words are but pictures of our thoughts.” — John Dryden
ARTS, Thought, Communication
1064
“The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.” — Logan Pearsall Smith
ARTS, Communication
1065 H
“A book should be luminous, but not voluminous.” — Christian N(estell) Bovee
ARTS, Knowledge
1066 PH
“Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part
that is original is not good.” — Samuel Johnson
ARTS, Originality
1067
“He picked something valuable out of everything he read.” — Pliny the Younger
ARTS, Knowledge, Wisdom
1068
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
— Rene Descartes
ARTS, Knowledge, Wisdom
1069
“So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.” — James Thurber
ARTS, Sciences
1070
“He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found.” — Archibald Alexander Hodge
ARTS, Knowledge, Wisdom
1071 A
“A poet that fails in writing becomes often a morose critic. The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.” — William Shenstone
ARTS, Pessimism
1072 H
“There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and
publishers in this.” — Christian N(estell) Bovee
ARTS, Punishment
1073 H
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set I go into the other room
and read a book.” — Groucho (Julius) Marx
ARTS, Knowledge
1074 H
“Television can be very educational. Every time somebody turns on the set I go into the other
room and read a book.” — Jacob M(orton) Braude
ARTS, Knowledge
1075 H
“The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature
is unread.” — Oscar Wilde
ARTS, Communication
1076 H
“Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work
instead.” — Oscar Wilde
ARTS, Government
1077 C
“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”
— Thomas Jefferson
ARTS, Competition
1078
“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
ARTS, War & Peace
1079
“Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.” — Joseph Addison
ARTS, Happiness, Sin
1080 P
“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” — George Eliot
ARTS, Fear, Sadness
1081
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” — Aldous Huxley
ARTS, Communication
1082
“The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.” — William Wordsworth
ARTS, Happiness
ARTS Cross-References
Personal Management—449 •
Effectiveness—477 • Ignorance—512, 517 • Knowledge—530, 544 •
Wisdom—593, 595-598 • Thought—637 • Judgment—674 •
Originality—716, 733 • Love—774 • God—993, 996-997 •
Sciences—1087, 1101 • Government—1254
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