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“The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.”

Shows Seeing Taste Degrees Highest Saint Occasions Serving Ungrateful Troublesome Meekness Unfriendly

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.”

Firsts Lines Genius Taste Highest Appreciate Originals Appearance Command Reputation Recognition

Book:Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835

Source: Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835

“The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.”

Beautiful Born Nice Taste Perception Highest Appreciation Combination Faculty Admiration Deserving Admiring Knowledge And Wisdom

Book:OUR VILLAGE

Source: OUR VILLAGE

“I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.”

People Realizing Common Education Taste Highest Inclination Acquisition Grudge Workmen No Sympathy

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D.

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D.

“There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.”

Men Long Enough Feelings Hands Common Attention Subjects Taste Highest Mass Capacity Praise Honour Preacher Thread Preaching Worn Entitled Eloquence Pulpit Offending

Author:Jane Austen

“Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.”

Want Ends Self Taste Highest Bliss Breasts Humankind Load Lowest Woe

Book:Faust/Bilingual

Source: Faust/Bilingual

“To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so that people understand, sympathize, see the universality of pain, and feel strengthened, if not directly encouraged to live on. If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living. The true artist [...] gets his sense of worth and honor from his conviction that art is powerful--”

People Ifs Way Feels Should Writing Art Said Pain Artist Evil Powerful Honor Taste Despair Highest Art Is Suicide Conviction Commit True Artists Universality

Author:John Gardner