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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Nothing, Poor, Promise

"Thou hast seen nothing yet."

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

Nothing,

"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

Nothing,

"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Nothing, Shadow

"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Nothing, Shadow, State

"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

Nothing,

"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Nothing,

"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Nothing,

"A witty saying proves nothing."

Voltaire, French Writer

Nothing, Saying, Witty

"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."

Voltaire, French Writer

Nothing,

Explore more quotes by Van Wyck Brooks

"There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few."

Knowledge

"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."

Experience

"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."

People

"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere."

People

"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible."

Bible

"Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright."

Genius

"If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?"

Man

"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."

Success

"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."

Perception

"The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses."

War