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

John Sterling

Men, Color, Feelings

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You just cant predict baseball

John Sterling

Baseball, Cant

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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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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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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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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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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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Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

John Sterling

Emotional, Elements, Leading On

John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.116

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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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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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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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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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There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

John Sterling

Lying, Believe, Men

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Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

John Sterling

Wind, Mistress, Made

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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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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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The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.

John Sterling

Men, Clients, Trouble

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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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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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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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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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Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

John Sterling

Faith, Art

John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.153

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Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

John Sterling

Tyrants, World, Affection

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