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«Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.»
«The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.»
«Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things»
Author: Matthew Arnold (Critic, Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: effective, impressive, mode, widely
«Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode»
«The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live. There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable. For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in a glory is one mode. To beat a retreat to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival.»
«The artist chooses his subject; that is his mode of praising.»
«The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.»
«The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.»
«The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.»
«Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen»

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