Lafcadio Hearn Quotes - Page 2

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• There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.

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  Book, Views, Two

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.114, tredition

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• A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

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  Great Day, Useless, Examination

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.152, tredition

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• Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

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  Literature, West, Ethical

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.150, tredition

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• French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.

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  Sex, World, Lovers

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.27, tredition

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• Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

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  Religious, Men, America

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.19, tredition

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• In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.

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  Beautiful, Art, Reality

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.108, tredition

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• At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Kings, Literature, Lasts

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.111, tredition

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• There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others

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  Suicide, Men, Literature

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.130, tredition

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• My friends are much more dangerous than my enemies. These latter - with infinite subtlety - spin webs to keep me out of places where I hate to go, - and tell stories of me to people whom it would be vanity and vexation to meet; - and they help me so much by their unconscious aid that I almost love them.

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  Hate, Vanity, People

  Lafcadio Hearn (2008). “The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn Including the Japanese Letters”, p.147, Wildside Press LLC

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• But I confess that "my mind to me a kingdom is" - not! Rather it is a fantastical republic, daily troubled by more revolutions than ever occurred in South America.

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  America, Mind, Republic

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Gleanings in Buddha-Fields (Annotated Edition)”, p.62, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

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  Philosophy, People, Literature

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.117, tredition

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• To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

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  Rivers, Heaven, Chinese

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories”, p.16, tredition

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• A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

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  Art, Fall, Literature

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.99, tredition

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• Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

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  Art, Idealism, Subjects

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.35, tredition

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• The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Special, Literature, Students

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.229, tredition

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• But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

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  Ideas, Effort, Generations

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.156, tredition

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• I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

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  Passion, Fiction, Literature

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.23, tredition

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• Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.

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  Beautiful, Believe, Englishmen

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.105, tredition

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• Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.

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  Ideas, Differences, Literature

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.92, tredition

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• It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

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  Race, Literature, Next

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.105, tredition

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• It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Europe, East, Literature

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.92, tredition

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• Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Inspiration, Race, Europe

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.107, tredition

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• The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

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  Romance, Kind, Poet

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.99, tredition

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• One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Book, Want, Lasts

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.160, tredition

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• Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Simple, Men, Europe

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.24, tredition

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