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«Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
discovers, displays, left over, novelties, novelty, show off, surprising
«Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys»
«And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judgesover experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please?These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin ofcommonwealths and the subversion of the state.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Doubt,
Mankind,
Religion
| Keywords:
apt, bring about, compelled, competence, devoid, devoid of, disorders, experts, free state, novelties, slavishly, submit, subversion, subversions, whatsoever, whim
«It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
charms, deceive, impressions, novelties, novelty
«Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty»
«Happiness ain't a thing in itself /it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
any longer, contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, dulled, fresh, novelties, novelty, pleasant, The Force, thing in itself
«The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Originality
| Keywords:
merit, novelties, novelty, originality, sincerity
«There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct -- not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
amelioration, circumscribed, circumscribes, inertia, league together, new line, novelties, striking
«For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them»
«America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.»
Author: Will Rogers
| About:
America and Americans,
Ignorance
| Keywords:
belong, belong to, novelties, novelty, select
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