PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover That they are poor in that which makes a lover.
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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
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Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.
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The incipient institution needs some stabilizing principle to stop its premature demise. That stabilizing principle is the naturalization of social classifications. There needs to be an analogy by which the formal structure of a crucial set of social relations is found in the physical world, or in the supernatural world, or in eternity, anywhere, so long as it is not seen as a socially contrived arrangement. When the analogy is applied back and forth from one set of social relations to another, and from these back to nature, its recurring formal structure becomes easily recognized and endowed with self-validating truth... For discourse to be possible at all, the basic categories have to be agreed on. Nothing else but institutions can define sameness. Similarity is an institution.
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Read not to contradict and confute…nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
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Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
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The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the 'state of progressive collapse' is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted...
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A kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.
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It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.
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A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a great-aunt or uncle, whose existence he has scarcely heard of.
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Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted...
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The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing.
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What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused.
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The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.
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The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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The mention of one apartment in a building naturally introduces an enquiry or discourse concerning the others: and if we think of a wound, we ...
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Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. A lady of my acquaintance said, I don't care so much for what they say as I do for what makes them say it.
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A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
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