
“No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.”
Quote from John Constable's letter to Rev. John Fisher 1825
1820s
II.3.7
The First Ennead (c. 250)
“No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.”
Quote from John Constable's letter to Rev. John Fisher 1825
1820s
Gakumon no Susume [An Encouragement of Learning] (1872–1876).
Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 1851); published in Memories of Hawthorne (1897) by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, p. 157 <!-- also in Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic (1921) by Raymond Melbourne Weaver -->
Context: Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them. Appreciation! Recognition! Is love appreciated? Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory — the world? Then we pigmies must be content to have our paper allegories but ill comprehended.
blood and sex
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“There are no indecipherable writings, any writing system produced by man can be read by man.”
Epigraphic Atlas of Petén Phase 1 http://cemyk.org/pages/en/publications-projects.php
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
“I don't trust any man who hasn't kissed another man.”
“And he is oft the wisest man
Who is not wise at all.”
The Oak and the Broom.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)