The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. - Leslie Stephen
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
- Leslie Stephen
Chance is a name for our ignorance. - Leslie Stephen
Chance is a name for our ignorance.
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. - Leslie Stephen
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
The poet should touch our heart by showing his own - Leslie Stephen
The poet should touch our heart by showing his own
Genius is a capacity for taking trouble. - Leslie Stephen
Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service. - Leslie Stephen
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact. - Leslie Stephen
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.
When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believ… - Leslie Stephen
When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believ…
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. - Leslie Stephen
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.
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