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The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done.

George Edward Woodberry

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Thomas Traherne

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

Lawrence Lovasik

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the colour in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits, and you will pass for a fine man.

William Hazlitt

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy, because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.

Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral world, visible to the astral sight.

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Failure is not mere failure. It is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

I have a sense of having just left without saying goodbye, and of this whole other world just kind of fading away. … I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

John Henry Newman

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.