Washington Allston Quotes

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• The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

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  Wise, Adventure, Men

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.171, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

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  Mind, Distinction, Objects

  Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.167

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• Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.

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  People, Trying, Faster

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• The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

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  Proud, Fool, Mercy

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.171, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

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  Lying, Peculiar, Half

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

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  Art, Excellence, Delight

  Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.167

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• If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

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  Truth, Men, World

  Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.169

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• I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.

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  Believe, Men, Excellence

  Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.174

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• In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.

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  Degrees

  Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.169

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• Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.

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  Home, Injustice

  Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.169

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• It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.

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  Evil, Lazy, Delay

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• Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

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  Men, Vanity, Justice

  Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.173

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• I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.

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  Lying, Thinking, Traveler

  Washington Allston (1993). “The Correspondence of Washington Allston”, p.15, University Press of Kentucky

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• I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.

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  Ambition, Shining, Ability

  Washington Allston (1993). “The Correspondence of Washington Allston”, p.13, University Press of Kentucky

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• An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.

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  Men, Mind, Half

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.174, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• Never judge a work of art by its defects.

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  Art, Umpires, Judging

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• Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

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  Men, Idols, Faults

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.172, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

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  Humility, Healing, Pride

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• Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate in silence.

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  Hate, Silence, Excellence

  "Memoirs and Essays, Washington Allston", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 256-59, 1922.

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• The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

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  Envy, Common, Praise

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• Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

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  Reality, Essentials, Desert

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.175, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

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  Voters, Reputation, Popularity

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• He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.

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  Respect, Looks, Fit

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.

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  Lying, Toads, Hundred

  Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.173

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• No man knows himself as an original.

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  Men, Originality, Knows

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.174, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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