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«Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the w»
Author: Francis Quarles
(Poet)
| Keywords:
Aristotle, cheat, delightful, Plato, recommendation, recommendations, short-lived, short letter, Socrates, Theocritus, Theophrastus
«Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.»
«Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.»
«Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
agreement, delightful, disputation, disputations, friendships, in agreement, liking, personal
«My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness -- if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor -- but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
alertness, All Over Me, animal fiber, asleep, by me, countenance, degrees, delightful, effeminacy, eleven, enticement, faintness, fibers, frown, languor, laziness, lilies, no show, pass by, pearl, relaxed, sensation, slumbered, The Animal, unbearable
«That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abstract, autobiography, civilized, concrete, delightful, fascinating, record, vague
«No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
comparable, comparable to, comparable with, culture, delightful, occupation, The Culture, The Garden, to that
«Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings;Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
delightful, dreadful, Marches, measures, meetings, merry, stern, sterner