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• it may be said that children are but newly-issued editions of old compositions, re-bound and corrected, with fresh introductions, modern print and headpieces, but the text is that of former editions handed down from generation to generation.

  Anna Kingsford

  Children, Generations, May

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• What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

  André Gide

  Prayer, Self, Moments

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• Las madres que obligan a sus hijas a casarse por interés son peores que los amonitas que sacrificaban a sus hijos a Moloch: los segundos sufrían una muerte rápida, los primeros sufrían años de tortura, pero con demasiada frecuencia conducían al mismo resultado.

  John Wilmot

  Marriage, Daughter, Mother

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• I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

  William Hazlitt

  Enemy, Vices, World

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1473, Delphi Classics

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• From good to bad, and from bad to worse,
  From worse unto that is worst of all,
  And then return to his former fall.

  Edmund Spenser

  Fall, Return, Worst

  Edmund Spenser (1859). “Poetical Works”, p.225

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• La cólera y la sed de venganza son una especie de fiebre; las peleas y los pleitos, una hemorragia; al menos, una evacuación. Esto último ocasiona una disipación de dinero; lo primero, de esos espíritus ardientes que causan una fermentación preternatural.

  William Shenstone

  Venganza, ira, lucha

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). "Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc", p.151

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• Hay algo más terrible en la felicidad que en la tristeza, siendo esta última terrena y finita, mientras que la primera está compuesta de la sustancia y textura de la eternidad, de modo que los espíritus aún encarnados bien pueden temblar ante ella.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Happiness, Sorrow, Substance

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.390, e-artnow

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• Lo que la caricatura es en la pintura, lo es lo burlesco en la escritura; y de la misma manera el escritor cómico y el pintor se correlacionan entre sí; así como en la primera, el pintor parece tener la ventaja, en la segunda está infinitamente del lado del escritor. Pues lo monstruoso es mucho más fácil de pintar que de describir, y lo ridículo de describir que de pintar.

  Henry Fielding

  Escritura, Lados, Ridículo

  Henry Fielding (1902). "Historia de las aventuras de Joseph Andrews y su amigo el Sr. Abraham Adams".

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• Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.

  Henry Fielding

  Mind, Virtue, Contemplation

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1853). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Complete in One Volume”, p.645

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• The man who is wantonly profuse of his promises ought to sink his credit as much as a tradesman would by uttering a great number of promissory notes payable at a distant day. The truest conclusion in both cases is, that neither intend or will be able to pay. And as the latter most probably intends to cheat you of your money, so the former at least designs to cheat you of your thanks.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Numbers, Design

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.3805, Delphi Classics

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• Permíteme retomar tu metáfora. La amistad es un jarrón que, cuando se estropea por el calor, la violencia o un accidente, bien puede romperse de inmediato; nunca se puede confiar en él después. Cuanto más grácil y ornamental era, tanto más claramente discernimos la desesperanza de restaurarlo a su estado anterior. Las piedras toscas, si se fracturan, pueden volver a cementarse; las piedras preciosas, nunca.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Friendship, Precious Stones, Broken

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). "Las obras de Walter Savage Landor", p.4

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• Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.

  Heinrich Heine

  Pain, Choices, Teeth

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.175

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• Hay tres medios de creer: por inspiración, por razón y por costumbre. El cristianismo, que es la única institución racional, no admite, sin embargo, entre sus hijos a nadie que no crea por inspiración. Ni perjudica a la razón ni a la costumbre, ni les priva de su propia fuerza; por el contrario, nos dirige a abrir nuestras mentes por las pruebas de la primera, y a confirmar nuestras mentes por la autoridad de la segunda.

  Blaise Pascal

  Faith, Inspiration, Believe

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• There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.

  Edmund Burke

  Differences, Sublime, And Love

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.118

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• The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.

  Simone Weil

  Rights, Relation, Duty

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.2, Routledge

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• I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.

  Anna Quindlen

  Believe, Giving, Abortion

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.211, Ballantine Books

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• A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Destiny, Poetry, Realization

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “Less Than One: Selected Essays”, p.177, Penguin UK

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• I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

  Laurence Sterne

  Vices, Dishonesty, Murder

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.331

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• My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst. In complete solitude, the eye wants objects, the heart wants attachments, the understanding wants reciprocation. The character loses its tenderness when it has nothing to strengthen it, its sweetness when it has nothing to soothe it.

  Hannah Más

  Retirement, Believe, Character

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.390

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• Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

  Lillian Hellman

  Book, Writing, Thinker

  Lillian Hellman (1971). “The collected plays”, Little Brown and Company

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• Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.

  Lillian Hellman

  Niños, Dolor, Recuerdos

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• Cuida más tu conciencia que tu patrimonio. Esta última puede comprarse y venderse; la primera, nunca.

  Hosea Ballou

  Latter, Estates, Careful

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• La fantasía, una facultad animal, es muy diferente de la imaginación, que es intelectual. La primera es pasiva, pero la segunda es activa y creativa. Los niños, los débiles mentales y los tímidos están llenos de fantasía. Los hombres y las mujeres de intelecto, de gran intelecto, son los únicos que poseen una gran imaginación.

  Joseph Joubert

  Niños, Animales, Hombres

  Joseph Joubert (1896). "Pensées de Joubert"

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• Fortaleced la mente femenina ampliándola, y se acabará la obediencia ciega; pero, como la obediencia ciega es siempre buscada por el poder, los tiranos y los sensualistas tienen razón cuando se esfuerzan por mantener a la mujer en la oscuridad porque, los primeros sólo quieren esclavas, y los segundos un juguete.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Oscuridad, Juego, Tiranos

  1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pt.1, cap.2.

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• When winter stern, his gloomy front uprears,
  A sable void the barren earth appears;
  The meads no more their former verdure boast,
  Fast-bound their streams, and all their beauty lost;
  The herds, the flocks, in icy garments mourn, and wildly murmur for the Spring's return;
  From snow-topp'd hills the whirlwinds keenly blow,
  Howl through the woods, and pierce the vales below,
  Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies,
  Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies.

  George Crabbe

  Primavera, Invierno, Golpe

  George Crabbe (1861). “The Life and Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe”, p.8

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