The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader. - Arthur Helps

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And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

Arthur Helps

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.

Cause, Causes, Leader, Leadership, Man, Men

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Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.

Art, Business, Character, Tact, Veritable, Way

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

Gained, Seldom, Suffering, Wisdom

Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.

Chair, He Man, Horrid, Illusion, Men, Terrors

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

Done, Good, Loss, Self, Spiritual, Turned

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

Advice, Ask, Half, Stories, Tell, Weaker

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John Berger

The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.

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Claude Levi-Strauss

The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.

Benefits, Country, Established, People, Slowly

Marilynne Robinson

And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.

Clamped, Creature, Eye, Life, Stones, Whims

John de Ruiter

Where your life ends, your being doesn’t. Where your being ends, you don’t. That is what is able to have and move your forms.

Able, Ends, Forms, Move, Moving

Samuel Taylor Coleridge