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Henry David Thoreau385
1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitio… 1817–1862Related quotes
“There is only one man to follow me who has genius, and that is Edward German.”
Edward German (1862–1936) English musician and composer
Sir Arthur Sullivan
“Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn book The Oak and the Calf
Solzhenitsyn here seems to be paraphrasing Sophocles who expresses similar ideas in Oedipus Rex. This is also a direct reference to Plutarch's line, "call no man fortunate until he is dead," from his "Parallel Lives".
The Oak and the Calf (1975)
Neville Cardus (1888–1975) English writer
Preface to Ten Composers, August 1944.
Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821) Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat
"Of Experiment and of the Genius of Discoveries," p. 37
An Examination of the Philosophy of Francis Bacon (1836)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 52.
“A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money.”
William Shenstone (1714–1763) English gardener
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