“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.”
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Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
This appears as an anonymous proverb in Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine Vol. XIII, (January - June 1883) edited by T. De Witt Talmage, and apparently only in recent years has it become attributed to Addison.
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“We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth.”
Novalis book Blüthenstaub
Fragment No. 32; Variant translations: We are on a mission.We are called to form the earth.
We are on a mission.We are called to educate the earth.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
“We are all sprung from a heavenly seed.”
Caelesti sumus omnes semine oriundi.
Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher
Book II, line 991 (tr. Munro)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960) Welsh politician
In Place of Fear (William Heinemann Ltd, 1952), p. 157
1950s
“We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal.”
Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman
Vol. I, ch. 2, p. 60.
Motto proposed by Smith for the Edinburgh Review.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
“A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Source: Walden, or Life in the Woods
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
Source: Natural Right and History (1953), p. 6