"The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying."

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Source : William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1867). “Homiletics and Pastoral Theology”

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

#Criticism Quotes #Disappear Quotes #Comprehending Quotes

“Let me be candid, my party is full of racists”
“Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow and the day after that.”
“You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.”
“I don't think any government has the means to protect us from the world reality.”
“I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU”
“I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off.”
“Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.”
“I get paranoid about people staring at me. Even now I don't deal with people looking at me. I can't do it sometimes. I can't go out. I don't know how to react when people stare.”

Source : "Don't look back in anger" by Sarah Edworthy, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2005.

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