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Edgar Guest, born on August 20, 1881, and died on August 5, 1959, was a renowned British poet. His poetry is known for its simplicity, profoundness, and popularity among readers. more

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“People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.”

People Ifs Men Firsts Said Soul Country Cities Stupid Angry Flames Divinity Immortal Countryside Immortal Soul

Book:Co-operation and Nationality: A Guide for Rural Reformers from this to the Next Generation

Source: Co-operation and Nationality: A Guide for Rural Reformers from this to the Next Generation

“Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.”

Men Mind Body Events Miracle Every Man

Author:Paul Valery

“The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.”

Giving Body Used Instruments Sensuality

Author:Anais Nin

“Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.”

Needs Self Virtue Hunger Devotion Ashamed Disguise

Author:Anais Nin

“The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.”

Kind Doe Stills Might Pleasure Environment Violence Offers Normal Machines Reactions Greek Moderation Humane Bicycle Cycling

Author:J. B. Jackson

“The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.”

Men Light Nations Wise Morality Wit Streams Quotations Epigrams Sparkling Concussions

Book:Literature and life, lects

Source: Literature and life, lects

“An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.”

Reason Light Shining Regions Flash Quotations Epigrams

Book:Literature and life, lects

Source: Literature and life, lects

“It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.”

People May Loses Medical More Time Anxious Attempting Astonishing Neurotic Misers Hypochondriac

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.”

Literature Speech Sentences Giants Quotations Maxims Sweeping Clauses

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder to robbery. I have somewhere seen it observed, that we should make the same use of a book, as a bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it; and those sweets she herself improves and concocts into honey. But most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, nor industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.”

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think