He thought of Doctor Codger at Cambridge, bubbling away with his iridescent Hegelianism like a salted snail; of Doctor Quiller at Oxford, ignoring Bergson and fulminating a preposterous insular Pragmatism. Each
— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 10, 2021
contradicted the other fundamentally upon… https://t.co/CPL8zwbDuG pic.twitter.com/ceud3FApfN
It is certain that sedentary and within-door arts, and delicate manufactures (that require rather the finger than the arm), have in their nature a contrariety to a military disposition; and, generally, all warlike people are a little idle, and love danger https://t.co/M4fcKiQox7 pic.twitter.com/Vo0tlKVV6L
— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 12, 2021
I am sorry for thee, thou art come to answer
— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 12, 2021
A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch,
Uncapable of pity, void and empty
From any dram of mercy.https://t.co/3alTpBEcAT
…whether unto eight or ten bodies of men to adde one of a woman, as being more inflammable, and unctuously constituted for the better pyrall combustion, were any rational practise: Or whether the complaint of Perianders Wife be tolerable, that wanting https://t.co/2cxoYnWS1z pic.twitter.com/GPOijuUHK4
— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 16, 2021
I would examine the Caspian Sea, and see where and how it exonerates itself, after it hath taken in Volga, Jaxares, Oxus, and those great rivers; at the mouth of Oby, or where? What vent the Mexican lake hath, the Titicacan in Peru, or that circular… https://t.co/o1QUZ22xXE
— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 16, 2021
He that shall consider how little general maxims,
— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 17, 2021
precarious principles, and hypotheses laid down at pleasure, have promoted true knowledge, or helped to satisfy the inquiries of rational men after real improvements; how little, I say, the setting out… https://t.co/7tidJsCXgS pic.twitter.com/hPNexHWQS7
I have a vivid vignette in my memory of my return to my father's house, down through the pine woods and by the winding path across the deep valley that separated our two ridges. https://t.co/JZouiuQdHM
— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 18, 2021
Me receptet Sion illa,
— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 18, 2021
Sion David, urbs tranquilla, …
… Urbs coelestis, urbs beata,
Supra petram collocata,
Urbs in portu satis tuto
De longinquo te saluto,
Te saluto, te suspiro,
Te affecto, te requiro! https://t.co/u9QJlgmkZd
being forced now to drop the empty mask of ostentation, and put on the solid hearty features of a genuine face. And just so, are some people in the world to be joked into occasional effective goodness https://t.co/Tz1W6WRvDX
— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 19, 2021
So had it lasted for some months; and now the Volume on Clothes, read and again read, was in several points becoming lucid and lucent; the personality of its Author more and more surprising, but, in spite of all that memory and conjecture could do, more… https://t.co/mLV1pYErtb
— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 19, 2021
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— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 22, 2021
Know, sir, that I
— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 23, 2021
Will not wait pinion'd at your master's court,
Nor once be chastis'd with the sober eye https://t.co/13eynaajLM
They aren't even decent factions. You blither to damned committees of damned tradesmen whose
— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 24, 2021
sole idea for this world is to get overpaid for their self-respect; you whisper and hobnob with local solicitors and get yourself seen about with them; https://t.co/jSUtYWofaF pic.twitter.com/hFntP7SvYG
…because we cannot examine and perceive all the relations they have one to another, by juxtaposition, or an immediate comparison one with another. Thus, having the ideas of an obtuse and an acute angled triangle, both drawn from equal bases, and between https://t.co/xMkoLs8Z8u pic.twitter.com/5ZmuuwhPxR
— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 30, 2021
A course more promising
— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 30, 2021
Than a wild dedication of yourselves
To unpath’d waters, undream’d shores, most certain
To miseries enough: no hope to help you,
But as you shake off one to take another:
Nothing so certain as your anchors, whohttps://t.co/3BlHDumEKN
Where the dead red leaves of the years lie rotten,
— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 30, 2021
The cold old crimes and the deeds thrown by,
The misconceived and the misbegotten,
I would find a sin to do ere I die,
Sure to dissolve and destroy me all through,
That would set you… https://t.co/ztBnOI63AM pic.twitter.com/W7W5FibwnD
For ADORATION from the the down,
— Quotations.ch (@QuotationsC) September 30, 2021
Of dam'sins to th' anana's crown,
God sends to tempt the taste;
And while the luscious zest invites,
The sense, that in the scene delights,
Commands desire be chaste. https://t.co/QTuEE2zYGW