James Thomson Quotes

Scottish - Musician September 11, 1700 - August 27, 1748

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

James Thomson

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

James Thomson

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

James Thomson

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.

James Thomson

Eduard Hanslick Quotes

German - Writer September 11, 1825 - August 6, 1904

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

Eduard Hanslick

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

Eduard Hanslick

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.

Eduard Hanslick

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

Eduard Hanslick

O. Henry Quotes

American - Writer September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

O. Henry

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

O. Henry

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

O. Henry

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

O. Henry

D. H. Lawrence Quotes

English - Writer September 11, 1885 - March 2, 1930

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

D. H. Lawrence

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

D. H. Lawrence

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D. H. Lawrence

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

D. H. Lawrence

Vinoba Bhave Quotes

Indian - Educator September 11, 1895 - November 15, 1982

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.

Vinoba Bhave

A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.

Vinoba Bhave

In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.

Vinoba Bhave

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

Vinoba Bhave

This day is abundant with many more.

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