The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of Poe, who reasoned, or feigned to reason, that the writing of a poem is an act of the intelligence. It never fails to amaze me that the classics hold a romantic theory of poetry, and a romantic poet a classical theory.
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Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.
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Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our patience and races like a gazelle when you are out of breath.
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Hebrews 12:5:
And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as children? It says, 'My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,'
(NIV)
And have you [completely] forgotten the divine word of appeal and encouragement in which you are reasoned with and addressed as sons? My son, do not think lightly or scorn to submit to the correction and discipline of the Lord, nor lose courage and give up and faint when you are reproved or corrected by Him
(AMP)
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
(KJV)
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The whole art of war consists in a well-reasoned and extremely circumspect defensive, followed by rapid and audacious attack
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into
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If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?
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Acts 17:2:
As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
(NIV)
And Paul entered, as he usually did, and for three Sabbaths he reasoned and argued with them from the Scriptures,
(AMP)
And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
(KJV)
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