Harriet Hosmer quotes
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“I honor every woman who has strength enough to step out of the beaten path when she feels that her walk lies in another.”
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“Even if so inclined, an artist has no business to marry. For a man, it may be well enough, but for a woman, on whom matrimonial duties and cares weigh more heavily, it is a moral wrong, for she must either neglect her family, or her profession.”
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“We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at the one, but we laugh at the drollery of the other - as the world goes a pun is regarded as an imponderable commodity, all know the rank it holds in the order of pure intellect.”
-- Harriet HosmerSource : Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1913). “Harriet Hosmer: letters and memories”
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“A pun, like champagne, loses its sparkle when too long drawn out. Its flash is its savor.”
-- Harriet HosmerSource : Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1913). “Harriet Hosmer: letters and memories”
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“[On leaving the U.S. for Italy:] I ought to be accomplishing thrice as much as now, and feel that I am soul-bound and thought-bound in this land of dollars and cents.”
-- Harriet Hosmer
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Source : Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.
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“If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.”
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“The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.”
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