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• It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Humor, Sage, Tests

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• The passion of fear (as a modern philosopher informs me) determines the spirits of the muscles of the knees, which are instantly ready to perform their motion, by taking up the legs with incomparable celerity, in order to remove the body out of harm's way.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Fear, Passion, Order

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• In nature, all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Nature, Money, Perfect

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• Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. The appearance of reality is necessary to make any passion agreeably represented, and to be able to move others we must be moved ourselves, or at least seem to be so, upon some probable grounds.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Truth, Powerful, Moving

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• It is the same with understanding as with eyes; to a certain size and make, just so much light is necessary, and no more. Whatever is beyond brings darkness and confusion.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Eye, Light, Confusion

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• Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Liberty, Danger, Restriction

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• True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Beauty, Faces, Architecture

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• We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Judging, Veins, Ears

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• It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in the capacity of critic, every writing critic is bound to show himself capable of being a writer; for if he be apparently impotent in this latter kind, he is to be denied all title or character in the other.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Writing, Character, Titles

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• As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Encounters, World, Virtue

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• They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Home, Talking, Used

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