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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

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The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the right men and utilize combined energy

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Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Respect Quotes , Art Quotes

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

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The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

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The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

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Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.

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The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

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In a position of this sort, even though the enemy should offer us an attractive bait, it will be advisable not to stir forth, but rather to retreat, thus enticing the enemy in his turn; then, when part of his army has come out, we may deliver our attack with advantage.

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Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

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A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

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If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away.

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Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.

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Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Theatre Quotes

A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who act simply as lions are stupid. So it follows that a prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honour his word when it places him at a disadvantage and when the reasons for which he made his promise no longer exist.

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Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

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There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.

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