“A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.”
Book:Essays and Reviews
Quote by Edwin Percy Whipple
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Essays and Reviews
A compilation of thoughtful and reflective pieces on a wide range of subjects, including literature, philosophy, and social issues. more
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“Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.”
Source: Success and Its Conditions
“Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.”
“Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.”
Source: Hypocrisy: A Satire
“If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.
“It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think