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Quote by William C. Bryant

“Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.”

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William C. Bryant was an American poet, born on November 3, 1794, and died on June 12, 1878. His poetry is known for its concise language and profound emotional expression, which has had a profound impact on American literature. more

“Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner or fragment of the world or some little place in time where things just feel so right and huge and powerful and easy that I will have the perhaps blasphemous thought maybe there are layers of heaven.”

World Feels Littles Sometimes Earth Heaven Easy Powerful Huge Corners Perceive Stillness Portions Layers Wholeness Fragments

Author:Rick Bass

“Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.”

Men Giving Streets Morality Respect One Man Preacher Preaching Lectures

Book:The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

“Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.”

Men Highest Respect Cherish

Author:Joseph Addison

“What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?”

Ifs Men Art Use Names Respect Devil Silver Gigs Spoons Respectability Silver Spoons

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.”

Certain Humanity Tree Duty Respect Plant Ties Beast Nevertheless

Book:Essays [tr. by Cotton

Source: Essays [tr. by Cotton

“Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.”

Life Stills Passion Views Alive Growing Objects Respect Discovery Miracle Familiar Rising Feds Admiration Perpetual Decay Succession Short Lived Rising Up

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.”

Crime Office Respect Method Remains Symbols Flags Entitled Pirate No Respect Highwaymen

Book:Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters

Source: Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters

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