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“Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the law and by the letter Duty done is duty done Do it, Time is on the wing!”

Wells May Done Law Opinion Duty Tasks Letters Wings Ill

Book:Poems: With a Memoir

Source: Poems: With a Memoir

“I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness).”

Men Littles Ideas Whole America Opinion Imagine Ill Versions Contrast Coats Manhood Masculinity Femininity Fitting Pitiful

Book:Sunrise with Seamonsters

Source: Sunrise with Seamonsters

“There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling, servile, pusillanimous--secondly, because of its gross irrationality. We know the British to bear us little but ill will--we know that, in no case do they utter unbiased opinions of American books . . . we know all this, and yet, day after day, submit our necks to the degrading yoke of the crudest opinion that emanates from the fatherland.”

Source: Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition

“The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country, for when deep impressions of these things are made at that age, they follow men through the whole course of their lives, and conduce much to preserve the peace of the government, which suffers by nothing more than by vices that rise out of ill opinions.”

Men Mind Children Made Country Whole Use Government Care Age Suffering Courses Opinion Youth Letters Method Ill Vices Impression Manners Preserves Priests Flexible Follow Me

Book:Utopia

Source: Utopia

“He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.”

Mean Self Loses Opinion Alive Position Fame Praise Ill Illness Vanity Vain Sufficient Endeavor Self Sufficient

Book:Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III

Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III

“The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the fool at Athens, who fancied all the ships that came into the harbor were his own.”

Men Done Opinion Fool Office Ill Ships Possessed Harbors Athens

Author:Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt