Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm.
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Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.
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How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
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Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists.
-- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
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One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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If you enjoy what you do, don't be afraid of expressing your enthusiasm. Enjoyment is infectious.
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The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
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The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.
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I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass
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Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.
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