Quote by Robert Brault
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. – Robert Brault

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It is a sad lament — the happiness you might have found if you had taken the path that still lies right there in front of you. – Robert Brault

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An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing. – Robert Brault

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Our live experiences fixed in aphorisms stiffen into cold epigram. Our heart’s blood, as we write with it, darkens into ink. – F.H. Bradley

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Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations. – Gary Saul Morson, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture, 2011

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Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription. – Richard Whately, Elements of Rhetoric

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Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybodys reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. – Clement Greenberg

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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. – Jean de la Bruyere

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I dont think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you cant teach them is the very essence of poetry. – Robert Morgan

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Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever. – Arthur Henderson

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