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“A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.”

Art Hard Character Understanding Interest Exercise Taste Art Is Affection Gentleman Unemployed Liberal Arts

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention - purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God, - purity apprehends and tastes Him.”

Men Two Taste Wings Intention Simplicity Affection Purity Earthly Things

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.”

Knows World Wells Two States Moments Body Change This World Taste Affection Purity Misfortunes Perpetual Tangled Flux Yarn

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.”

Littles Real Virtue Taste Affection Active Delicate Real Love

Book:The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry

Source: The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry

“We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.”

Family Opinion Taste Sake Affection Concessions

Book:Letters of Eugénie de Guérin

Source: Letters of Eugénie de Guérin

“In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens. A man has at least as good a right to choose his wife, as he has to choose his religion. His taste may not suit his neighbors; but so long as his deportment is correct, they have no right to interfere with his concerns.”

Men Firsts May Long Government Wife Ought Citizens Taste Conscience Concern Affection Neighbor Suits Interfere

Author:Lydia M. Child

“If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.”

Ifs Mind Humans Simple Pleasure Study Taste Affection Tendencies Human Mind Simple Pleasures Unlawful

Book:Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text

Source: Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text

“Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he shall prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.”

Source: The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce