An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.
Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back. - Washington Allston
Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.
- Washington Allston
The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor. - Washington Allston
The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future … - Washington Allston
It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future …
If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the… - Washington Allston
If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the…
If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own. - Washington Allston
If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.
Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there. - Washington Allston
Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.
I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be… - Washington Allston
I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be…
In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others. - Washington Allston
In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect. - Washington Allston
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.
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