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unbounded vanity.
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Poise was keeping your knees and your lips together, your eyebrows and your nostrils apart.
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Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.
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I crave fit disposition for my wife;
Due reference of place, and exhibition;
With such accommodation, and besort,
As levels with her breeding.
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The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity ... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.
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A copious manner of expression gives strength and weight to our ideas, which frequently make impression upon the mind, as iron does upon solid bodies, rather by repeated strokes than a single blow.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.
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What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.
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[S]ometimes in writing of myself ... I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure, an antic sound.
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Intellectual effort for its own sake, they call eccentricity.
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Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.
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For pomp is a tenacious force. And a wily one too. How
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Impression without expression causes depression. Study without service leads to spiritual stagnation.
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genuine excitement
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Intention, Attention, No Tension.
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Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.
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Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.
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...such a vehement impatience of restraint and steady work; such a strong wish for wings - wings such as wealth can furnish; such an urgent thirst to see, to know, to learn; something internal seemed to expand bodily for a minute.
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Impression minus expression leads to spiritual depression.
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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. Gravity, a mysterious carriage of the body to conceal the defects of the mind.
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Tedium and ennui are the demons of modernity. These haunt us when the routines fail, the narratives dissolve, and time disintegrates (p. 718).
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Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
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Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.
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Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul,
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You were used to say extremity was the trier of spirits; that common chances common men could bear; that when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating
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On Creating - What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.
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Proper stance and movement are obviously genetically old, environment-resistant behaviours. Misuse, with all its psychosomatic or, rather, somato-psychic consequences, must therefore be considered a result of modern living conditions - of a culturally determined stress.
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SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
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A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
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Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.
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The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
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I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity; I have emerged from it not by any philosophy, but owing to some imperative necessity of action.
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stillness, the ruler of movement.
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The longing need to be noticed that is often miscalled ego.
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We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and aesthetic values as we now give to science, to invention, to practical organization. One without the other is impotent.
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Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.
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Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.
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COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends
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Anxious fills the Enthusiasm that lifts you up from your Tiredness
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.
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Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
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insouciance. But there's just something uniquely intimidating about
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We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.
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In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.
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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this ...
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When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence.
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The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it ...
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Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
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There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.
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To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
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Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.
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The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.
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Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.
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Ambition aspires to descend.
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When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise
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Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.
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INTEREST. Here is the key to the whole thing. If and when you are truly interested in what you are doing, or are about to do, then you will center your attention on it with little or no effort, and almost irrespective of the attendant conditions.
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.
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I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.
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ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
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It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
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I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence - they look paradoxical - unless you attain to an unmoving dance, you have not attained.
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The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.
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In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego with its own potency) which is infectious: the patient enjoys a placebo-effect which redounds to the ego of the "artist."
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Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
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You create attention to attract attention.
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it sometimes happened that you would, in the middle of your exertions, be discouraged by the absurdity of what you were in the process of doing: athletic exertion was vanity. You engaged in it less for the joy of the act than in order to exhaust yourself.
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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
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Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave
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Ego-tendencies. Like a magnet, the new centre [i.e., self] attracts to itself that which is proper to it.80 As a
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor
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There is a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die.
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Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.
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Solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public ... [p. 7]
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Constancy ... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
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Sincerity is technique.
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A clever general ... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods. Disciplined and calm, he awaits the appearance of disorder and hubbub among the enemy. This is the art of retaining self-possession.
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If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.
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Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
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All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn;
Object of my implacable disgust.
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Opportunism has suffered the emasculation of being converted into a principle;
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Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
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Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.
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If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.
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Energy in expression is silent. The knowing of what no words can say. A chasm of gravity could ever hold,; Weightless, it is part of all living things
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Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature.
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Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.
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The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
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Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind,
To follow rule and climb the stately chair.