Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is tha...t every hatred is caused by love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events how...ever we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the history of the human mind, these glowing and ruddy fables precede the noonday thoughts of men, as Aurora the sun's rays. Th...e matutine intellect of the poet, keeping in advance of the glare of philosophy, always dwells in this auroral atmosphere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and ...antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit,--not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognise the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will th...e casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »