"The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking."

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Source : Leslie Stephen (2012). “Studies of a Biographer”, p.265, Cambridge University Press

Leslie Stephen

#Practice Quotes #Movement Quotes #Century Quotes

“Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn, as much as he please; he will never know any of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind. Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?”
“Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.”
“A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.”
“Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.”
“We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.”
“I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.”
“I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.”
“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.”

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