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“To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows down across the green ridges from the skyline, and some of the beauty and spirit that are still available to any resident of the valley who has a moment and the wit to lift up his eyes unto the hills.”

Trying Wells Stills Moments Eye Spirit Flow Independent Green Committed Available Wit Hills Lifts His Eyes Valleys Hostile Residents Ridges Skylines

Author:Wallace Stegner

“Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.”

Thinking Writing Wells Soul Feelings Together Expression Taste Wit Good Feeling Writing Well Good Thinking Thinking Good

Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?”

Wells Kind May Done Eye Answers Figures Painting Paint Drawing Wit Public Eye Catalogues Figure Painting

Book:the works of thomas hood

Source: the works of thomas hood

“The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.”

Giving Should Mind Wells Turns Reading Sports Style Wit Classic

Book:The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

“A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.”

Men Wells Littles Deals Ill Wit Instance Satire

Book:The wisdom of being religious

Source: The wisdom of being religious

“It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.”

Wells Speak Speech Judgment Silent Wit Sufficient Misfortunes

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.”

Wells Made Suffering Perfect Dog Words Of Wisdom Perfection Fellows Profound Saint Wit Mortals Manifest Concealed Latent Estimating Wit And Wisdom

Book:Stickeen

Source: Stickeen

“There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.”

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.”

Should Wells May Reason Wife Wit Mistress

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.”

Want Wells Art Grace Poet Advantage Gold Wit Naked Painter Jewels Ornaments

Author:Alexander Pope

“From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.”

World Wells Children Language Fields England Folks Deeper Wit Spokes Farms New World Drank New England Wit And Wisdom

Book:Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

Source: Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems