“Studious of ease and fond of humble things.”
Epistle: "From Holland to a Friend in England" (1703), line 23
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Anglo-Irish poet and politician 1674–1749Related quotes
“We are too fond of seeing the ancients as one thing and the moderns as another.”
Ancient Work
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XII - The Enfant Terrible of Literature
Context: If a person would understand either the Odyssey or any other ancient work, he must never look at the dead without seeing the living in them, nor at the living without thinking of the dead. We are too fond of seeing the ancients as one thing and the moderns as another.
“Fond Hope keeps the spark alive, whispering ever that to-morrow things will mend.”
Credula vitam<br/>spes fovet et fore cras semper ait melius.
Credula vitam
spes fovet et fore cras semper ait melius.
Bk. 2, no. 6, line 19.
Elegies
“There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.”
Of Inconsistency, Chap. xxi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.”
Source: Gone Girl
“The lines were fill'd with many a tender thing,
All the impassion'd heart's fond communing.”
Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love Letter from The London Literary Gazette (16th November 1822) Fragments in Rhyme II - Lines Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love Letter
The Improvisatrice (1824)
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“Humbleness and effeminacy are not things that a great cricketer can afford to have.”
Cricket: Can it be Taught? (1926), ASIN: B000XTEYX2
“Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.”
Source: The Windup Girl (2009), p. 212
“For ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.”
Parallel Lives, Pericles