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“Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar.”

Beautiful Spirit Beauty Sacrifice Worst Fashion Superiors Fantastic Abstract Concrete Vulgar

Book:Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings

Source: Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings

“Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer committing faults in speech, he has surely reached perfection, as was said by the Holy Spirit. The worst defect in talking is talking too much. Hence, in speech be brief and virtuous, brief and gentle, brief and simple, brief and charitable, brief and amiable.”

Said Spirit Simple Talking Doubt Too Much Worst Holy Speech Perfection Faults Tongue Gentle Holy Spirit Attachment Virtuous Defects Charitable Amiable Talking Too Much

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not the true heart language which we cannot choose but love? And what has been their reward? They have sent down their name to be the by-word of all after ages; the worst reproach of the worst men a name convertible with atheism and devil-worship.”

Men Heart Has Beens Age Spirit Names Language Poor Acting Atheism Worst Worship Devil Rewards Adore Peasants Reproach True Heart Devil Worship

Book:Fraser's Magazine

Source: Fraser's Magazine

“But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, "deficit-financed government spending," and "the animal spirits of the spendthrift in the service of boosting "consumption demand"... Doesn't Keynesianism simply appeal to the worst in human nature?”

Humans Government Spirit Animal Economic Worst Human Nature Demand Spending Appeals Consumption Deficit Government Spending Protectionism Spendthrift Animal Spirits Keynesianism

Author:Ilana Mercer

“We look at death from the selfish side, like: "That guy died. Oh, it's so sad." Why is it sad? He's away from all of this bad stuff that's here on Earth. I mean, at the worst, he's just somewhere quiet, no nothing. At best, he's an angel... or he's a spirit somewhere. What is so bad about that?”

Looks Mean Earth Spirit Guy Stuff Sides Worst Quiet Angel Died Selfish That Guy So Sad Bad Stuff

Author:Tupac Shakur

“The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.”

People Self Spirit Energy Trouble Worst Despair Spring Defeat Opening Horizon Invites Fulfilling Hopelessness Helplessness

Author:Norman Cousins