"In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others."

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Source : Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.169

Washington Allston

#Degrees Quotes

“Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain.”
“Museums, I love museums.”
“Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment.”
“He that cannot obey, cannot command.”
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
“She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1934). “Innocence and experience: stories”
“When once you consider an action, do not let anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its dictates.”
“Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn't turn it on.”

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