Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his style; a man of vigorous powers makes his style bend to his conceptions.
Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other. - William Benton Clulow
Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.
- William Benton Clulow
The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to… - William Benton Clulow
The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to…
There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism. - William Benton Clulow
There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.
I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, t… - William Benton Clulow
I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, t…
Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men. - William Benton Clulow
Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.
Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer… - William Benton Clulow
Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer…
The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency,… - William Benton Clulow
The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency,…
Many of the finest and most interesting emotions perish forever, because too complex and fugitive for expression. Of all things relating to man, his … - William Benton Clulow
Many of the finest and most interesting emotions perish forever, because too complex and fugitive for expression. Of all things relating to man, his …
The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, impercept… - William Benton Clulow
The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, impercept…
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