Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence or stand in the place of the great; for it is better to be told, "Come up here,..." than to be put lower in the presence of a noble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Priest: Can't you conceive of a truth too great for the human mind to analyze? Dr. Henryk Savaard: Tonight, no. But tomorrow,... I may know better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet, love and hate mee too, So, these extreames shall neithers office doe;... Love mee, that I may die the gentler way; Hate mee, because thy love is too great for mee;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The breadth of the problem is great, for the poet is representative. He stands among partial men for the complete man, and apprise...s us not of his wealth, but of the commonwealth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also infinitely... valuable. There are artists who perhaps do not think art to be too great, for this is impossible, and yet they are not free enough to be able to rise above their own best accomplishments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consider the deference which is everywhere paid to a doctor's opinion. Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind th...an medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This seems a long while ago, and yet it happened since Milton wrote his Paradise Lost. But its antiquity is not the less great for... that, for we do not regulate our historical time by the English standard, nor did the English by the Roman, nor the Roman by the Greek.... From this September afternoon, and from between these now cultivated shores, those times seemed more remote than the dark ages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.... It is a place ...where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.... It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »