„Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love…“
— George Eliot, kniha The Mill on the Floss
Book I, ch. x
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
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„Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.“
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772 - 1834
9 May 1830
Table Talk (1821–1834)
„The world in all doth but two nations bear —
The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.“
— Andrew Marvell English metaphysical poet and politician 1621 - 1678
The Loyal Scot (1650-1652).
„A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.“
— Marcus Tullius Cicero Roman philosopher and statesman -106 - -43 pred n. l.
Book II, Chapter V; translation by Andrew P. Peabody
Tusculanae Disputationes – Tusculan Disputations (45 BC)
Originál: (la) A: Quod est enim maius argumentum nihil eam prodesse quam quosdam perfectos philosophos turpiter vivere?
M: Nullum vero id quidem argumentum est. Nam ut agri non omnes frugiferi sunt qui coluntur [...] sic animi non omnes culti fructum ferunt. Atque, ut in eodem simili verser, ut ager quamvis fertilis sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest, sic sine doctrina animus; ita est utraque res sine altera debilis. Cultura autem animi philosophia est; haec extrahit vitia radicitus et praeparat animos ad satus accipiendos eaque mandat eis et, ut ita dicam, serit, quae adulta fructus uberrimos ferant.
Kontext: A: For what stronger proof can there be of its [philosophy's] uselessness than that some accomplished philosophers lead disgraceful lives?
M: It is no proof at all; for as all cultivated fields are not harvest-yielding [... ] so all cultivated minds do not bear fruit. To continue the figure – as a field, though fertile, cannot yield a harvest without cultivation, no more can the mind without learning; thus each is feeble without the other. But philosophy is the cultivation of the soul. It draws out vices by the root, prepares the mind to receive seed, and commits to it, and, so to speak, sows in it what, when grown, may bear the most abundant fruit.
„You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.“
— Hilary Mantel, kniha An Experiment in Love
Zdroj: An Experiment in Love
„In my profession I have learned that women can bear more pain than men.'
'Are you a doctor, sir?“
— Helen Garner Australian author 1942
'No. A shoe repairer.'
Page 123.
Other Peoples Children (1980)
„More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.“
— Ken Kesey, kniha One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Zdroj: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
„I'm talking about connections
Between here and there;
All things exist at once
Seems more than we can bear.“
— Happy Rhodes American singer-songwriter 1965
"All Things (Mia ia io)" - Live performance at The Tin Angel, Philadelphia, PA (15 March 1997) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eACEYTQkoLA
Warpaint (1991)
Kontext: I dreamed I was an animal
In a human world;
Now when I hear big sounds
I cry like a little girl. I'm talking about connections
Between here and there;
All things exist at once
Seems more than we can bear.
„There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.“
— Jane Austen, kniha Pride and Prejudice
Zdroj: Pride and Prejudice
„It is hard to understand why an attempt to get more of the national product for those who at present get least is to be dismissed as pandering to envy, while an attempt to tilt it the other way by securing more concessions for the discontented Conservative electors of Tonbridge is not denounced as rapacity, and why the one is manifestly more worthy than the other.“
— Roy Jenkins British politician, historian and writer 1920 - 2003
Letter to The Times (23 July 1956), p. 9
1950s
„Good taste, tact, and propriety have more in common than men of letters affect to believe. Tact is good taste applied to bearing and conduct, and propriety is good taste applied to conversation.“
— Nicolas Chamfort French writer 1741 - 1794
Le bon goût, le tact et le bon ton, ont plus de rapport que n'affectent de le croire les Gens de Lettres. Le tact, c'est le bon goût appliqué au main- tien et à la conduite; le bon ton, c'est le bon goût appliqué aux discours et à la conversation.
Maximes et Pensées, #427
Maxims and Considerations, #427
„It is always necessary that the substance or essence of a person be good before there can be any good works and that good works follow and proceed from a person who is already good. Christ says in Matthew 7:18: “A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.”… The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.“
— Martin Luther seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483 - 1546
Zdroj: The Freedom of a Christian (1520), pp. 74-75
„Forgive me, that was the soldier speaking. Now this is the man speaking again. And the man is more than the soldier. I can bear anything. Death is a more solemn thing than all the earthly trash.“
— Emilio De Bono Italian General 1866 - 1944
Quoted in "Mussolini: Twilight and Fall" - Page 129 - by Roman Dąbrowski - Italy - 1956
„Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.“
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg German scientist, satirist 1742 - 1799
F 53
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
„A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.“
— H. Havelock Ellis British physician, writer, and social reformer 1859 - 1939
Zdroj: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 5
„Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.“
— William S. Burroughs, kniha The Western Lands
Zdroj: The Western Lands (1987), ch. 2
„Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.“
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, kniha Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Zdroj: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 49
„The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.“
— David Foster Wallace, kniha The Broom of the System
Zdroj: The Broom of the System
„People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.“
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield British statesman and man of letters 1694 - 1773
25 December 1753
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)