Command Quotes - Page 10

• High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.

  James Anthony Froude

  Appreciate, Lines, Taste

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835”, p.393, Cambridge University Press

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• El cristianismo nos ordena pasar de las injurias; la política, dejar que pasen de nosotros.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Christianity, Injury, Policy

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.15, Nayika Publishing

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• La astucia sólo tiene objetivos egoístas y privados, y no se detiene ante nada que pueda hacerlos triunfar. La discreción tiene vistas amplias y extensas, y, como un ojo bien formado, domina todo el horizonte; la astucia es una especie de miopía, que descubre los objetos más diminutos que están cerca, pero no es capaz de discernir las cosas a distancia.

  Joseph Addison

  Selfish, Distance, Eye

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.226

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• Existen, pues, estos tres medios de efectuar la persuasión. El hombre que ha de dominarlos debe, es evidente, ser capaz de (1) razonar lógicamente, (2) comprender el carácter humano y la bondad en sus diversas formas, y (3) comprender las emociones, es decir, nombrarlas y describirlas, conocer sus causas y la forma en que se excitan.

  Aristotle

  Carácter, Malo, Hombres

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.3615, Modern Library

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• Como creador de personajes, su peculiaridad es que crea allí donde sus ojos se posan... Con semejante poder a sus órdenes, Dickens hizo que sus libros ardieran, no apretando la trama o agudizando el ingenio, sino arrojando otro puñado de personas al fuego.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Character, Eye

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3106, Delphi Classics

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• To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.

  William Hazlitt

  Escritura, Opciones, Estilo

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1270, Delphi Classics

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• Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

  Charles Kingsley

  Voice, Heaven, Duty

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.93, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.

  Michael Novak

  Reality, Discovery, Mind

  Michael Novak (1993). “The Joy of Sports: End Zones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit”, p.172, Rowman & Littlefield

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• God never meant that man should scale the Heavens
  By strides of human wisdom. In his works,
  Though wondrous, he commands us in his word
  To seek him rather where his mercy shines.

  William Cowper

  God, Men, Shining

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.152

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• Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when, though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and fagot at command.

  Robert Southey

  Fire, Evil, Being Thankful

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• In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

  Eurípides

  Shining, Trouble, Hours

  Euripides (1814). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.204

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• Ni aparté a Adán de su bella esposa, ni a Eva le negué los misteriosos ritos del amor conyugal: Lo que los hipócritas austeramente hablan de pureza y lugar e inocencia, difamando como impuro lo que Dios declara puro, y ordena a algunos, deja libre a todos.

  John Milton

  Hypocrite, Mysterious, Innocence

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 738

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• Los árboles viejos en estado vivo son lo único que el dinero no puede comprar.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Tree, States, Old Trees

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley. The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage. Southey and Porson. Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble. Aeschines and Phocion. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil. King James I and Isaac Casaubon. Marchese Pallavicini and Walter Landor. General Kleber and some French officers. Bonaparte and the president of the senate. Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle. Peter Leopold and the President Du”, p.118

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• El amor es el gran intangible. ... Frenético y sereno, vigilante y tranquilo, extenuado y fortificado, explosivo y sosegado, el amor comanda un vasto ejército de estados de ánimo. Esperando la victoria, cojeando de la última escaramuza, los amantes entran de nuevo en la arena. ... El amor es la luz blanca de la emoción. ... Todo el mundo admite que el amor es maravilloso y necesario, pero nadie se pone de acuerdo sobre lo que es.

  Diane Ackerman

  Ejército, Amor Es, Blanco

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• From Memorial Day to Labor Day, you may wear white shoes. Not before and not after. As a command, the White Shoe Edict should be clear and simple enough. Do not violate it. In a society in which everything else has become relative, a matter of how it makes you feel, a question between you and your conscience, and an opportunity for you to be really you, this is an absolute.

  Judith Martin

  Memorial Day, Opportunity, Simple

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?

  Berthold Auerbach

  Work (Trabajo)

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• Speed as a drug disorganizes the personality; speed as the goal of information dissemination commits a subtler crime. People are mainlining our words. We rarely read of the rational alternatives, only of the commands that all must change or else. This is a prescription for public panic.

  Gail Sheehy

  People, Goal, Personality

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• Millones de ángeles están a las órdenes de Dios.

  Billy Graham

  Angel, Spirituality, Millions

  Billy Graham (2011). “Angels: Ringing Assurance that We Are Not Alone”, p.13, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.

  Francis Quarles

  World, Littles, Way

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.34

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• Tu orgullo no es más que el prólogo de tu vergüenza; donde manda la vanagloria, allí aconseja la necedad; donde cabalga la soberbia, allí lacera la vergüenza.

  Francis Quarles

  Orgullo, Vanidad, Vergüenza

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• I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Mind, Littles

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.7

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• The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks by, smuggles itself amidst the powers of destruction, knowing somewhere that God's plan for Creation is still at the very beginning.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Knowing, Victory, Doe

  Isaac Bashevis Singer Joseph C. Landis (1986). "Aspectos de I.B. Singer"

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• We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

  Agnes Repplier

  Intelligent, Conversation, Vistas

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.

  Jeremy Collier

  Giving, Sobriety, Satisfaction

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.118

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• What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

  Jeremy Collier

  Honor, Dignity, Reason

  Jeremy Collier (1725). “Essays upon several moral subjects”, p.223

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