Clarence Day Quotes

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• Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

  Clarence Day

  Inspiring, Beauty, Knowledge

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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• The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

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  Wise, Vacation, Knowing

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.15, 1st World Publishing

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• The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead.

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  Book, Fall, Heart

  "The Story of the Yale University Press Told by a Friend". Book by Clarence day, 1920.

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• Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

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  Funny, Character, Wrinkles

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• Reason is the servant of instinct.

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  Intuition, Reason, Instinct

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• Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

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  Reality, Ethics, Morality

  CLARENCE DAY (1948). “THE BEST”

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• Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

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  Responsibility, Good Day, Firsts

  Clarence Day (1997). “This Simian World”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

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  Children, Good Day, Parent

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• There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

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  Art, Book, Reading

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• You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

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  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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• It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

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  Freedom, Sacrifice, Rights

  CLARENCE DAY (1948). “THE BEST”

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• The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

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  Book, Reading, Men

  Clarence Day (1920). “The story of the Yale University Press told by a friend”

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• As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

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  Goes On, Creeds, Aspect

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.66, 1st World Publishing

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• The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.

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  Art, Ideas, Wish

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.23, 1st World Publishing

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• The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.

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  Fun, Hunting, Want

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.28, 1st World Publishing

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• As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

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  Angel, Done, Modesty

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.56, 1st World Publishing

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• When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

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  Police, Legacy, Eras

  Clarence Day (1928). “Thoughts without words”

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• The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

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  Life, Real, Fall

  1921 The Crow's Nest,'In His Baby Blue Ship'.

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• The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

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  Eggs, Thieves, Legs

  CLARENCE DAY (1948). “THE BEST”

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• A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

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  Money, Hurt, Taken

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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• It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.

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  Life, Stars, Dark

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• The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

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  Self, Justice, Diversity

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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• Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.

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  Wisdom, Leader, Worship

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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• A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.

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  Giving, World, Jinn

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.70, 1st World Publishing

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• The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.

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  Energy, Fields, Certain

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.15, 1st World Publishing

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