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قراءة كتاب Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age
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Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age
claim!
Unblest with sense above their peers refin'd,
Who shall stand up, dictators to mankind?
Nay, who dare shine, if not in virtue's cause?
That sole proprietor of just applause.
—Young.
Never write on a subject without having first read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.—Richter.
Which in their days most famously did flourish,
Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see,
But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish,
Because the living cared not to cherish
No gentle wits, through pride or covetize,
Which might their names for ever memorize!
—Spenser.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new.—Thackeray.
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul and taste.—Buffon.
Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.—Joubert.
Avarice.—It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.—Johnson.
Poverty is in want of much, but avarice of everything.—Publius Syrus.
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man—the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.—Fielding.