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Source: Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913

“We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.”

Art Ends Body Running Courses Growing Limits Contrary Exhausted Advancement Scientific Truth Scientific Advancement

Author:George Edward Woodberry

“We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.”

Desire Literature Nature Limits Trifles

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.”

Heart Situation Break Limits Adequate Break Up

Book:The Death Of The Heart

Source: The Death Of The Heart

“We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.”

Kind Made Stories Forever Goes On Limits Immortality

Author:Charles de Lint

“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition

“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”

Wisdom Science Doors Atheism Limits Accounts Infinite Aim Errors

Book:Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo

Source: Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo

“Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.”

Years Known Study Limits Hundred Weight Average Tiny Grandmother Eighty Ants Peasants Lifting

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.”

Life Inspirational Important Limits What Matters Elegant Surviving

Author:Maya Angelou

“Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.”

People Ifs Jesus Hours Limits Hundred Twenties Speed Miles Pilots Bumper Sticker Speed Limits

Book:Strip Tease

Source: Strip Tease

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.”

Source: How the World Works

“If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad, threat'ning the welkin with its big-swoll'n face? And wilt though have a reason for this coil? I am the sea. Hark how her sighs doth blow. She is the weeping welkin, I the earth.”

Ifs Reason Bigs Earth Faces Sea Wind Limits Mad Threat Misery Blow Rage Woe Sigh Weeping

Book:The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works

Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works

“A man who limits his interests limits his life.”

Men Interest Limits

Book:A Treasury of Great Recipes, 50th Anniversary Edition: Famous Specialties of the World's Foremost Restaurants Adapted for the American Kitchen

Source: A Treasury of Great Recipes, 50th Anniversary Edition: Famous Specialties of the World's Foremost Restaurants Adapted for the American Kitchen

“Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a thing to say. Limit these thoughts to no more than ten minutes a day; like sit-ups, they can make you thin”

Ifs Writing Wonder Minutes Ten Limits

Book:The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

Source: The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

“Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.”

Firsts Doe Possibility Truth Is Limits Universal Add Access Schemes Inquiry

Book:James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

“There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this.”

Knows Believe House I Believe Amount Limits Misery Mess Disarray

Author:Alice Munro

“The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Rome himself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no-one: they limit themselves to applauding the show.”