“Of Shakespeare, not a line but has been repeatedly, and will continue to be cited, as a commentary on the great and various volume of human nature.”
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Sketches from Life (1846)
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“Outside the rain continued its cadenced and indifferent commentary.”
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 12, “Debacle: The Swarmings” (p. 240)
"Unappreciated Shakespeare", Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, Christmas Number, 9 December 1882.
“Music has been a shaping force… music has been there to guide the development of human nature.”
The World in Six Songs (2008)
Maslow (1954), as cited in: Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Michael G. Walraven (1987). Psychology. p. 119; Also in: Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being. Simon and Schuster, 1962, p. 5.
Variant quote: Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be... It is as if Freud supplied us with the sick half of psychology and we must now fill it out with the healthy half.'
1940s-1960s
“The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.”
“One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.”
Page 46.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
In Dagbladet (6 October 2004) http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2004/10/06/410404.html