Edmund Gosse Quotes

Mr. Hunt was in sympathy with the methods we ourselves were in the habit of using when we painted butterflies and seaweeds, placing perfectly pure pigments side by side, without any nonsense about chiaroscuro.

Edmund Gosse

Quotes to Explore

In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.

Gayle Forman
- People
- Time
- Fall
I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.

Madhur Bhandarkar
- Family
- Reading
- Habit
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Xenophon
- Know
- Grief
- Sympathy
Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

V. S. Pritchett
- Life
- Think
- Habit
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

W. E. B. Du Bois
- Life
- World
- Work
There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.

Dana Perino