Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
E. M. Forster
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
W. H. Murray
I think we respond well when we do something well.
Katey Sagal
A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
Adam Cohen
During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
Edith Stein
Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.
Manny Farber
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
Epictetus
A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the difference between the two, about where documentary ends and drama begins.
Errol Morris
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
George Bernard Shaw
I leave for the guidance of other revolutionaries, who may tread the path which I have trod, this advice; never treat with the enemy, never to surrender to his mercy, but to fight to a finish.
Eamonn Ceannt
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.
Edwin Percy Whipple
