No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history.
Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul. - Edwin Percy Whipple
Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.
- Edwin Percy Whipple
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. - Edwin Percy Whipple
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. - Edwin Percy Whipple
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought. - Edwin Percy Whipple
Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. - Edwin Percy Whipple
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.
The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses … - Edwin Percy Whipple
The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses …
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the … - Edwin Percy Whipple
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the …
Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps. - Edwin Percy Whipple
Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.
God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings. - Edwin Percy Whipple
God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.
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