John Sterling quotes
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“Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.”
-- John SterlingSource : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and tales, collected and ed., with a memoir, by J.C. Hare”, p.146
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“Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.”
-- John SterlingSource : John Sterling (1842). “The Poetical Works of John Sterling”, p.261
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“Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.”
-- John SterlingSource : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledge”, p.473
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“Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright With joy the spirit moves and burns; So up to thee! O Fount of Light! Our light returns.”
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“Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.”
-- John SterlingSource : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.109
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“Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.”
-- John SterlingSource : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.153
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“Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.”
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“Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.”
-- John SterlingSource : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.137
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“Compliments are only lies in court clothes.”
-- John SterlingSource : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.579
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“Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.”
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“Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.”
-- John SterlingSource : John Sterling (1848). “Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledge”, p.168
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“Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.”
-- John SterlingSource : John Sterling (1842). “The Poetical Works of John Sterling”, p.219
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“Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.”
-- John SterlingSource : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.155
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“Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.”
-- John SterlingSource : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.128
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“An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.”
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“Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.”
-- John SterlingSource : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.130
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“Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.”
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“Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.”
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“Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.”
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“There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.”
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“The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.”
-- John SterlingSource : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.184
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“Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.”
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“The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.”
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“Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.”
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“Man is a substance clad in shadows.”
-- John SterlingSource : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.136
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“Commerce has made all winds her mistress.”
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“One dupe is as impossible as one twin.”
-- John SterlingSource : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.121
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“A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.”
-- John SterlingSource : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.151
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“Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.”
-- John SterlingSource : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.116
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