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Source: Essays on men and manners. A description of the Leasowes, the seat of the late William Shenstone, esq., by R. Dodsley. Verses to Mr. Shenstone

“Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.”

World Mean Reason Products Ignorant Good Sense Candor Good Humor Good Nature Beneficence

Book:Select essays on the belles lettres

Source: Select essays on the belles lettres

“Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it.”

Reason Seems Interest

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)

“There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual impartiality should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered be a cause not partisan.”

Should Reason Seems Together Political Politics Intellectual Argument Reason Why Patriotism No Reason Partisans Trimming

Author:Herman Melville

“In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]”

Reason Existence Eating Solo Palate

Author:Juvenal

“Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.”

Should Children Reason Powerful Our Children Ill Copies Refrain Depraved Misdeeds

Author:Juvenal

“If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.”

Ifs World Reason Might Style Expression Appreciate Fancy Obscure Obscurity Fallacy Really Deep

Book:Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life

Source: Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life

“I constantly walk into a room and I don't remember why. But for some reason, I think there's going to be a clue in the fridge.”

Thinking Reason Remember Walks Rooms Eating Clue Fridges

Author:Caroline Rhea

“the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.”

Reason Gay Travel Time Travel Traveler Only Time Really Gay

Author:Clare Boothe Luce

“Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.”

Men World Heart I Can Hard Reason Three Greater Four My Heart Reputation Sensitive Acquire Refuge Scandal Mistress Brilliance

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.”

Reason Heard Bees

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.”

Reason Poor Poverty Rich Failing Deserve Misery Folks Reason Why Idleness

Book:Ballads, metrical tales and other poems

Source: Ballads, metrical tales and other poems

“Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.”

Ifs Feels Reason Feelings Passion Interest Perfect Minutes Subjects Ten Clothes Concern Roots Dresses Complexes Indifferent Topics Straightforward Guarded Touchy Overbearing Deep Roots

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.”

Ifs Reason Law Loses Break Fool Demand Criticism Elders Pardon Applause

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton

“Of lunacy, Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride, Ambition disappointed, riches lost, And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft By man inflicted on his brother man; Sorrow, that, made the reason drunk, and yet Left much untasted. So the cup was fill'd.”

Men Made Reason Lost Left Causes Brother Pride Sorrow Disease Ambition Madness Riches Drunk Cups Disappointed Lunacy

Book:Pollok's Course of Time

Source: Pollok's Course of Time

“It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.”

Men Wells Reason Shows Feelings Might Impossible Understood Argument Pressure Fingers Spread Resistance Enthusiasm Distinction Endeavor Combat Elude

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces

“True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.”

Should Reason Law Duty Rational Generosity Sovereign True Generosity

Book:The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham

Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham

“There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.”

People Knows Believe Book Reason Age Form I Believe Black Wealth Relation Property Chemicals Diamond Commodity Coal Black Diamonds

Book:Victory

Source: Victory

“The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.”

People Want Reason Would Be Dies Fighting Energy Havens Instinct Fades Wanting To Die

Book:Sad cypress

Source: Sad cypress

“It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.”

Reason Mistake Enemy Gains Excellent Maxims

Book:The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

“Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.”

Giving Reason Left Nations Causes Simple Cases Fit Naked Passed Away

Book:The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

Source: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

“Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.”

Men Want Reason Animal Grief Virtue Foolish Irrational Consolation Insensibility

Book:Enchiridion

Source: Enchiridion

“[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.”

Reason Use Speak Language Existence Risk Poet Survival Conscious

Author:Adrienne Rich

“The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is 'only words' and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.”

World Trying Believe Stills Reason Enough Poetry Language Poet Description Good Enough Social Change

Book:On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

“Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.”