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Source: The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750

“They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.”

Ifs Men May Has Beens Hands Would Be Lost Loses Perfect Behinds Gone Generations Century Limits Gains Perfection Improvement Invention Great Men Reaching Receiving Lag

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and this is what is decisive has never been lost, despite times of decline, so long as the Nordic blood was still alive. Heroism, in fact, took many forms, from the warrior nobility of Siegfried or Hercules to the intellectual nobility of Copernicus and Leonardo , the religious nobility of Eckehart and Lagarde, or the political nobility of Frederick the Great and Bismarck , and its substance has remained the same.”

“More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it in spite of its denials and ex-communications. We are far from having overcome bourgeois thought or practices, despite the socialist "intermission" between the Russian revolution and the collapse of the Berlin wall. The avant-garde has lost its radical nature. On the other hand, "bourgeois theatre" is sometimes subtle enough to flirt with the avant-garde or to make "intelligent boulevard theatre.”

“Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.”

Hands Lost Gold

Book:The Country Parson ; The Temple

Source: The Country Parson ; The Temple

“This rose became a bandanna, which became a house, which became infused with all passion, which became a hideaway, which became yes I would like to have dinner, which became hands, which became lands, shores, beaches, natives on the stones, staring and wild beasts in the trees, chasing the hats of lost hunters, and all this deserves a tone.”

Hands Passion House Lost Tree Land Deserve Stones Rose Dinner Beach Staring Tone Beast Hats Shore Hunters Chasing Wild Beasts

Book:Days and Nights

Source: Days and Nights

“A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.”

Hands Lost Grows Identity Taste Familiar Dull Shops Coats Second Hand Overused

Author:Anais Nin

“In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.”

“Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.”

Thinking Done Hands Action Lost Views Sun Noble Descending

Author:Joseph Joubert

“I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just pretty tired, because they didn't make it easy for me. And coming right off the last lawsuit, it was the last thing I wanted to get involved in. When it was over, we didn't really celebrate, we were just exhausted. I lost all interest in the record business and never wanted to do anything except hand in a record again.”

Hands Wanted Lasts Lost Felt Easy Interest Careers Worry Records Involved Beats Tired Celebrate Exhausted Get Involved Lawsuit

Author:Tom Petty

“Theres simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is its the whole picture that counts.”

Important Whole Feelings Hands Lost Important Things Consumers Upset Owners Accountability Powerlessness Business Owners Whole Picture

Author:Jeremy Stoppelman

“What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.”

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“The trick in foraging for a tooth lost in coffee grounds is not to be misled by the clumps. The only way to be sure is to rub each clump between your thumb and index finger, which makes a mess of your hands.”

Way Hands Lost Fingers Coffee Tricks Teeth Mess Thumbs Misled Foraging

Book:Roger Rosenblatt Collection

Source: Roger Rosenblatt Collection

“The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.”

People Has Beens Hands Government Law Lost Protect Weapons Concepts Tyranny Shields

Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“The smaller the town the more important the ball club was. But if you beat a bigger town they'd practically hand you the key to the city. Any if you lost a game by making an error in the ninth or something like that, well, the best thing to do was just pack your grip and hit the road, because they'd never let you forget it.”

Ifs Wells Important Hands Games Lost Forget Cities Keys Beats Balls Bigger Towns Errors Clubs Best Things Things To Do Packs Forget It

Author:Smoky Joe Wood

“A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.”

Hands Seems Lost Wealth Property Fortune Acquire Endurance

Author:J. G. Holland

“One year, I'd completely lost my bearings trying to follow potty training instruction from a psychiatric expert. I was stuck on step on, which stated without an atom of irony: "Before you begin, remove all stubbornness from the child." . . . I knew it only could have been written by someone whose suit coat was still spotless at the end of the day, not someone who had any hands-on experience with an actual two-year-old.”

“I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.”

Ifs Giving Years Stills Two Hands House Lost Five Changed Give Me Remains Legs Ease Five Years Forty Masterpiece Crippled Baltimore Two Hands Decorators

Author:H. L. Mencken

“A great purposelessness has descended upon modern civilizations. People at large have lost any sense of the meaning and purpose of life; and without an understanding of our own purpose, there can be no true commitment. Whether that commitment is to marriage, family, study, work, God, relationships, or the simple resolutions of our lives, it will be almost impossible to fulfill without a clear and practical understanding of our purpose. Commitment and purpose go hand in hand.”

Source: The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose

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