John Sterling Quotes

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• Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

  John Sterling

  Self, Intuition, Natural Instinct

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and tales, collected and ed., with a memoir, by J.C. Hare”, p.146

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• A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

  John Sterling

  Believe, School, Men

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.151

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• Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

  John Sterling

  Men, Color, Feelings

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• One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

  John Sterling

  Duplicity, Dupes, Impossible

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.121

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• Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

  John Sterling

  Strong, Pain, Joy

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• Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.

  John Sterling

  Men, Color, Ideas

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.109

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• Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

  John Sterling

  Truth, Truth Is, Ideals

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledge”, p.473

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• Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright
  With joy the spirit moves and burns;
  So up to thee! O Fount of Light!
  Our light returns.

  John Sterling

  Moving, Light, Joy

  John Sterling (1842). “The Poetical Works of John Sterling”, p.127

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• Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

  John Sterling

  Education, Cutting, Modern

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• Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

  John Sterling

  Laughter, Self, Tears

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.130

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• You just cant predict baseball

  John Sterling

  Baseball, Cant

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• Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

  John Sterling

  Wind, Mistress, Made

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• Man is a substance clad in shadows.

  John Sterling

  Men, Humanity, Shadow

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.136

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• Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

  John Sterling

  Flower, Past, Clothes

  John Sterling (1842). “The Poetical Works of John Sterling”, p.219

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• Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

  John Sterling

  Lakes, Water, Speech

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.155

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• Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

  John Sterling

  Hands, Arbitrary, Superstitions

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.128

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• An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.

  John Sterling

  Truth, Patents, Scales

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.167

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• Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

  John Sterling

  Dream, Thinking, Toil

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• Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

  John Sterling

  Giving, Receiving, Life Is

  John Sterling (1842). “The Poetical Works of John Sterling”, p.261

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• I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful.

  John Sterling

  Beautiful, Thinking, Honor

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• Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

  John Sterling

  Poetry, Joy, Magic

  John Sterling (1848). “Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledge”, p.168

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• Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

  John Sterling

  Fighting, Men, Law

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.112

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• Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

  John Sterling

  Lying, Clothes, Compliment

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.579

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• Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

  John Sterling

  Men, Folly, Caricatures

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.137

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• Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.

  John Sterling

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Reality

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.127

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