Isaac D'Israeli Quotes
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Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
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The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.
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Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.
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Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.
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The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.
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Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.
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The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
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The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.
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Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
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Those who never quote, in return are never quoted.
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It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money according to their notions, our writers usually furnish their pages rapidly with the productions of their own soil: they run up a quickset hedge, or plant a poplar, and get trees and hedges of this fashion much faster than the former landlords procured their timber. The greater part of our writers, in consequence, have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them; and those who never quote, in return are never quoted!
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Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when he came to compare them with their originals, he was surprised to find that they were nothing for his purpose! the originals conveyed a quite contrary sense to that of the pretended quoters, who often, from innocent blundering, and sometimes from purposed deception, had falsified their quotations. This is an useful story for second-hand authorities!
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The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
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Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize.
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There is a society in the deepest solitude.
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A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.
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One may quote till one compiles.
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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
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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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Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
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Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.
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To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
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Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.
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