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“This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.”

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Robert Wilson Lynd was an American writer known for his profound insights into the life of the American Midwest. His works are often characterized by humor and satire, depicting the life of the American middle class. more

“On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder, a singer of praise. He is not concerned with getting rid of dross except in so far as it hides the gold. In other words, the destructive side of criticism is purely a subsidiary affair. None of the best critics have been men of destructive minds. They are like gardeners whose business is more with the flowers than with the weeds.”

Men Mind Firsts Has Beens Sometimes Whole Sides Virtue Flower Concerned Criticism Gold Praise Critics Affair Singers Destructive Weed Gardener Dross

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.”

People Way Treats

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.”

Ifs Knows Men Writing Art Facts Fields Significant Bother Expenses Insignificant Knowledge Is Power Art Of Writing Writing History

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.”

People Mind Mean Poor Rich Masters Crowds Complaining Manners Good Man Decline Decay Employers Civility Good Manners Servility Scraping Abbreviations

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men (as Dostoevsky does) in his wild state before he has been domesticated. Her men and women are essentially men and women of the fireside.”

Men Doe Has Beens States Natural Animal Study Men And Women Historian Jane Naturalist Austen

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places for the stars, and our children's children's and so forth children may regard a ship as a creeping thing scarcely more adventurous than a worm. Meanwhile, every harbour gives us a sense of being in touch, if not with the ends of the universe, with the ends of the earth.”

Ifs Men Giving May Children Ends Earth Christian Lasts Universe Stars Grows Century Regard Our Children Tired Ships Worms Jumping Adventurous Harbour Jumping Off

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.”

World Feels Kind May Stills Book Eye Half Ignorance Particular Depends Ignorant Conquer His Eyes New World Naturalist

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.”

Stills Age Forget Seventies Omniscient

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.”

Love Is Boys Poet Calves

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

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