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“His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.”

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Nicolas Chamfort, born on April 6, 1741, and died on April 13, 1794, was a prominent French writer and poet of the 18th century, known for his unique literary style and profound thoughts. more

“The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it is independently of all thinking, and thus antithetical to the sensible world.... The world of thought is the universal, the timeless and spaceless, the absolutely necessary, whereas the world of sense is the contingent, the changing and moving appearance which somehow indicates or symbolizes it.”

Thinking World Moving Objects Universal Aim Appearance Thoughtful Sensible Timeless

Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.”

Freedom Honor Resolve

Author:Etienne de La Boetie

“He that cannot paint must grind the colors.”

Color Paint Grind

Author:J. G. Holland

“This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!”

World Imagination Sleep Secret Known Sea This World Discovery Built Fairs Green Islands Fairy Sunlight Communion Foul

Author:J. G. Holland

“My God! I thank Thee for the bath of sleep, That wraps in balm my weary heart and brain, And drowns within its waters still and deep My sorrow and my pain. I thank Thee for my dreams, which loose the bond That binds my spirit to its daily load, And give it angel wings, to fly beyond Its slumber-bound abode.”

Source: THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.

“No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the full exercise of his powers and the supply of all his legitimate wants.”

Men Way Want Feels Long Enough Law Liberty Exercise Remains Spheres Restraint

Author:J. G. Holland

“Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.”

World Soul Stars Mines Divine Senses Bars Thee Sluggish

Book:THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.

Source: THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.

“I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.”

World Wealth Office Accounts Passages Honorable Delightful Institute Bounty Benefactors Institutes

Author:J. G. Holland

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