Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
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But not the first Illusion, the new earth,The march upon the solitary fire,The casting of the dice of death and birthAgainst a giant, for a blind desire,The stream uncrossed, the promise still untried,The metal sleeping in the mountainside.
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
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Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, t...
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The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes.
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Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
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The impossible is often the untried.
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
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The greatest wastes are unused talents and untried ideas.
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What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
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