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“The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.”

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Logan Pearsall Smith

Logan Pearsall Smith was an English author renowned for his essays and literary criticism. His unique writing style has won the admiration of readers. more

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“It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.”

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“I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.”

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Source: Poems and prose

“I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.”

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“I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)

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“Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.”

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“Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.”

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“You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.”

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