Edwin Chadwick quotes

Edwin Chadwick quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.”
-- Edwin Chadwick

#Sight Quotes #Intelligence Quotes #Sun Quotes

“The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.”
“The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”
“If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.”
“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”
“The color of truth is gray.”
“A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.”
“The sun in my life, it is gone, it is gone”
“I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.”
“How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?”
“Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.”

Source : Alfred Noyes (1911). “Drake. The enchanted island. New poems”

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