John Foster Quotes

• One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

  John Foster

  Motivation, Work, Responsibility

  John Foster (1849). “The life and thoughts of John Foster”, p.266

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• A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

  John Foster

  Men, Discipline, Decision

  John Foster (1826). “Essays, in a Series of Letters, on the Following Subjects: On Man's Writing Memoirs of Himself. On Decision of Character. On the Application of the Epithet Romantic. On Some of the Causes by which Evangelical Religion Has Been Rendered Less Acceptable to Persons of Cultivated Taste”, p.67

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• Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

  John Foster

  Libro, Lectura, Orden

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