
“Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.”
pg 212.
Conquest of Abundance (2001 [posthumous])
Canto 8, stanza 40
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
“Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.”
pg 212.
Conquest of Abundance (2001 [posthumous])
“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection”
Sharon Salzberg in an article in a magazine called “Woman of Power” in 1989
Misattributed
Mehrotra, Karishma. (March 26, 2014). "Universities 're-write' Wikipedia to fill holes, include women" http://college.usatoday.com/2014/03/26/universities-re-write-wikipedia-to-fill-holes-include-women/. USA Today.
In a letter of 28 April, 1618, to the collector Sir Dudley Carleton; transl. from Italian, R. Saunders Magurn, The letters of Peter Paul Rubens, Cambridge Mass., 1955, p.60-61
Rubens is indicating in this letter to a good client the level of his personal involvement in several paintings which were offered then for sale. Rubens is specifying his involvement in a variety of degrees, in relation to the attribution by pupils or by other fellow-artists - like his cooperation in many paintings with Breughel, for instance
1605 - 1625
“That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.”
Book I, Ch. 3
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
“Success does not lie entirely in the hands of any one of us.”
1900s, Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)
Context: Success does not lie entirely in the hands of any one of us. From the day the tower of Siloam fell, misfortune has fallen sometimes upon the just as well as the unjust. We sometimes see the good man, the honest man, the strong man, broken down by forces over which he had no control. If the hand of the Lord is heavy upon us the strength and wisdom of man shall avail nothing. But as a rule in the long run each of us comes pretty near to getting what he deserves. Each of us can, as a rule there are, of course, exceptions finally achieve the success best worth having, the success of having played his part honestly and manfully; of having lived so as to feel at the end he has done his duty; of having been a good husband, a good father; of having tried to make the world a little better off rather than worse off because he has lived; of having been a doer of the word and not a hearer only still less a mere critic of the doers. Every man has it in him, unless fate is indeed hard upon him, to win out that measure of success if he will honestly try.
Voltaire (1916)
Context: Voltaire was not the first or last man to convert a prison into a hall of fame. A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.
It was while in prison that he changed his name from the one his father gave him — Arouet — to the one he has made famous throughout all time — Voltaire. He said, "I was very unlucky under my first name. I want to see if this one will succeed any better."