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• Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

  John Ruskin

  Perfect, Taste, Receiving

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• External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!

  Jules Verne

  Wall, Exercise, Men

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Journey to the Interior of the Earth”, p.150, Jules Verne

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• Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

  Margaret Benson

  Intellectual, Judgment, Reason

  Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faih”

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• He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

  John Stuart Mill

  Self, Decision, Apes

  John Stuart Mill (1865). “On Liberty”, p.34

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• Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.

  Madame de Stael

  God, Thinking, Increase

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• Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

  Samuel Smiles

  Religious, Soul, Peculiar

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

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• Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Animal, Men

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear - is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Giving

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.

  David Hume

  Men, Understanding, Culture

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1314, Delphi Classics

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• The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.

  Theodore Parker

  Dark, Men, Civilization

  Theodore Parker “The Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”

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• The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Nice

  MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1870). “OUR VILLAGE”, p.406

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• All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

  Robert Henri

  Play, Inward, Results

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Blessed, Animal, Self

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Living in Hope and History”, p.196, A&C Black

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• when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Essentials, Androgynous

  Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.153, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

  William Matthews

  Talent, Shallow, Hundred

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• God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

  William Matthews

  Ideas, Choices, Coercion

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• But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Lying, True Evil, Two

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• Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Faith, Men, Heroism

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• Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Compassion, Imagination, Firsts

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• While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body all the senses and faculties which they possess, but in being endowed with moral and intellectual powers which are denied to them, and which at once place him at the head of the living creation, and constitute him a moral, religious, intelligent, and responsible being.

  George Combe

  Religious, Animal, Intelligent

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• The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Understanding, Wells, Idiosyncrasies

  Joseph Glanvill (1885). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion”

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• One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an author. In Livy, it will be the manner of telling the story; in Sallust, personal identification with the character; in Tacitus, the analysis of the deed into its motive. If the same test be applied to painters, it will find the prominent faculty of Correggio to be manifested in harmony of effect; of Poussin, in the sentiment of his landscapes; and of Raffaelle, in the general comprehension of his subject.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Character, Interesting, Quality

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• It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a noble thought, as a virtuous mind welcomes a pure sentiment by a involuntary glow of satisfaction. But while the principle of perception is inherent in the soul, it requires a certain amount of knowledge to draw out and direct it.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Beautiful, Art, Soul

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• All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.

  J. G. Holland

  Exercise, Power, Men

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.15

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• The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

  J. G. Holland

  Animal, Men, Self

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