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“No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?”

May Art Self Philosophy Earth History Expression Claims Pearls Self Expression Oysters

Author:C. S. Lewis

“This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.”

Men Want Feels Should Action Opinion History Records Expression Office Chiefs Dread Virtuous Rescue Oblivion Posterity Infamous Depraved

Author:Tacitus

“Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.”

Humans Feelings Literature Language Silence History Missing Expression Contrary Noise Meaningless Deprivation Recourse Sensory Deprivation

Book:Alternating Current

Source: Alternating Current

“Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.”

Men Art Philosophy Character Belief Realizing History Expression Essence Safety Capability Surroundings Audacity

Book:Joseph Conrad The Dover Reader

Source: Joseph Conrad The Dover Reader

“Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.”

Life Is Energy History Expression Universal Hunger Universal Energy

Author:Mary Ritter Beard

“A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.”

Men Want Faces Rooms History Expression Historical Squares Ancestor Traits Inches

Book:The Conduct of Life

Source: The Conduct of Life

“History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.”

Men Firsts May Spiritual Science Lying History Expression Products Roots Accounts Spiritual Nature

Book:Carlyle Reader

Source: Carlyle Reader

“In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more than we can prove, or we have to use vague and general terms which hide the essential point, instead of bringing it out. The history of electrical theories furnishes a good example.”

Two Use Science Term History Example Expression Theory Prove Essentials Extremes Vague Electrical Good Examples Nomenclature Two Extremes

Author:Arthur Schuster