Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.
Matthew PearlRemember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.
Matthew PearlBooks do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
Matthew PearlTag: truth reading books literature fiction
Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.
Matthew Pearl'Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.'
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'Till America has learned to love literature not as an amusement, not as a mere doggerel to memorize in a college room, but for its humanizing and ennobling energy, my dear reverend president, she will not have succeeded in that high sense which alone makes a nation out of a people. That which raises it from a dead name to a living power.'
Matthew PearlTag: inspirational
'Do not ask what brings Dante to man but what brings man to Dante-to personally enter his sphere, though it is forever severe and unforgiving.'
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'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.'
Matthew PearlTag: inspirational-quotes
He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.
Matthew PearlI prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.
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