Letter (1813-11-06) on the reprint of Sense and Sensibility [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
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“So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.”
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Michel De Montaigne 264
(1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, … 1533–1592Related quotes
“Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.”
Pt. I, Bk. VI, ch. 3.
1830s, The French Revolution. A History (1837)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 310.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 413.
“The field of Sin
Brings forth the fruits of Death.”
Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 601 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
De Abaitua interview (1998)
The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, as translated by Chenmo Translation Committee (2000) p. 99