Essayists Quotes
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Essayists Quotes
“A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.”
“Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.”
“It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.”
“Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.”
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
“If Plutarch is the essayist I want to believe he is, he would want us all to sit in his chair.”
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
“It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
“I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.”
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”