47 Quotations with Composition.
- 1. Joseph Addison: Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties ...
- 2. Irving Stone: At the Cole School, where they had community singing every morning the teacher n ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relati ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and folli ...
- 7. Edward Gibbon: Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled ...
- 8. Earl of Kent: A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, t ...
- 9. Samuel Johnson: Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you thin ...
- 10. William Hazlitt: A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automat ...
- 11. Cyril Connolly: A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year g ...
- 12. Jane Austen: Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure th ...
- 13. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, gram ...
- 14. Arthur Murphy: Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
- 15. Samuel Johnson: Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady persev ...
- 16. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, gene ...
- 17. Samuel Johnson: Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical compositio ...
- 18. David Hume: Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indo ...
- 19. Lord Byron: If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted l ...
- 20. Thomas Chatterton: It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Dis ...
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