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“Commerce has made all winds her mistress.”

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John Sterling, born on July 4, 1948, is a renowned announcer. He has extensive experience in sports commentary and is known for his professional style and in-depth analysis. more

“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.”

Men World Ideas Feelings Answers Creation Color Type Shapes Approach Realization Dawn Closest

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“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.”

Light Earth Moving Joy Spirit Return Warm Thee Awake

Book:The Poetical Works of John Sterling

Source: The Poetical Works of John Sterling

“One dupe is as impossible as one twin.”

Impossible Twins Dupes Duplicity

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“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.”

Men Believe School Consolation Earnestness

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.”

Education Cutting Modern Fingers Rings Wrists Modern Education

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“Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.”

Self Moments Tears Laughter Mere Graves Passing Passings Enthusiasm Fantastic Excitement Controlled Inward Hysterical

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.”

Art Faith

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“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.”

Ifs Way Whole Reality Beautiful Saws Sacrifice Excellent Fancy Substitutes

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.”

Men Every Man Folly Resemblance Caricatures

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“Compliments are only lies in court clothes.”

Lying Clothes Court Compliment

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

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