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It does at first appear that a...

It does at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction,
while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite than a farmer
who in conducting his team.
- Isaac D'Israeli,

Isaac D'Israeli 99 quotes

It is a wretched taste to be g...

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

Isaac D'Israeli 99 quotes

After all, it is style alone b...

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

Isaac D'Israeli 99 quotes

Solitude is the nurse of enthu...

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

Isaac D'Israeli 99 quotes

Enthusiasm is that secret and ...

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Isaac D'Israeli 99 quotes

A circle may be small, yet it ...

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

Isaac D'Israeli 99 quotes

It does not at first appear th...

It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.

Isaac D'Israeli 99 quotes

Great collections of books are...

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners

Isaac D'Israeli 99 quotes

A nickname a man may chance to...

A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.

Isaac D'Israeli 99 quotes

The great man who thinks great...

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

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Miscellanists are the most pop...

Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public.

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But, indeed, we prefer books t...

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

Isaac D'Israeli 99 quotes

Style! style! why, all writers...

Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.

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The art of meditation may be e...

The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.

Isaac D'Israeli 99 quotes

Enthusiasm is that secret and ...

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

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The delights of reading impart...

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

Isaac D'Israeli 99 quotes

If the golden gate of preferme...

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

Isaac D'Israeli 99 quotes

Quotations, like much better t...

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

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Education, however indispensab...

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

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Literary friendship is a sympa...

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

Isaac D'Israeli 99 quotes

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