Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom o

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Beauty
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Poetry
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Attitude
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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12. – Alexander McQueen

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. – Lydia M. Child

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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who cant deal with a woman of their own age. – Michael Caine

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I dont want to fight aging I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? Im not interested. – Christine Lahti

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I think its great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view. – Bjorn Lomborg

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Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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