Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury quotes

“There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm.”
-- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

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“Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.”
-- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

Source : "Characteristics", Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, Part I. Sect. V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 673-74, 1922.

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“How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury”
-- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

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“Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists.”
-- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

Source : "Characteristics, Essay on The Freedom of Wit and Humour", Sect. I, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 787-90, 1922.

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“One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!”

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”

“If you enjoy what you do, don't be afraid of expressing your enthusiasm. Enjoyment is infectious.”

“The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.”

Source : Paul Cézanne, Alberto Giacometti, Felix Andreas Baumann, Poul Erik Tøjner, Tobia Bezzola (2008). “Cézanne & Giacometti: paths of doubt”, Hatje Cantz Pub

“Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.”

“The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.”

“I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”

“There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass”

“Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.”