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  • Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least shut up in fewer words.

    John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.121
  • Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

    Years   Twelve   Want  
    Maxine Hong Kingston (2009). “To Be the Poet”, p.3, Harvard University Press
  • Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

    Angel   Devil   Monsters  
    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160
  • Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.

    God   Prayer   Islamic  
  • Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.

  • It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Use almost can change the stamp of nature.

    Use   Habit   Potency  
    William Shakespeare (1851). “Dictionary of Shakespearian quotations: Exhibiting the most forcible passages illustrative of the various passions, affections and emotions of the human mind”, p.158
  • Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.

    Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.114, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.

    Men   Mind   Weakness  
    Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.268
  • Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.

    Blessed   Men   Naughty  
    William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The History of Pendennis: Christie's Collections”, p.537, 谷月社
  • Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.

    David Hume (2010). “Moral and Political Philosophy”, p.406, Simon and Schuster
  • Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

    Nature   Night   Devil  
    William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers (1862). “The Complete Works of Shakespeare: With a Memoir”, p.613, Prabhat Prakashan
  • Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beauty Lying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.

    Lying   Busy   Forget  
    "Serious Business". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,
  • Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

    Life   Positive   Wisdom  
  • There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

  • In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

  • When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles!

    Rocks   Melting   Ascent  
  • Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

  • It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

    C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

  • So we see, brethren and sisters that the words of Christ can be a personal Liahona for each of us, showing us the way. Let us now be slothful because of the easiness of the way. Let us in faith take the words of Christ into our minds and into our hearts as they are recorded in sacred scripture and as they are uttered by living prophets, seers, and revelators. Let us with faith and diligence feast upon the words of Christ, for the words of Christ will be our spiritual Liahona telling us all things what we should do.

    Spiritual   Heart   Mind  
  • Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.

    "Joyce Carol Oates Interviews Herself". www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.
  • There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian intellect has no reason to be intimidated in the presense of later-stage modernity. Christianity has seen too many 'modern eras' to be cowed by this one.

  • The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.

  • Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.

    Shining   Dresses   Care  
  • Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

    Angel   Giving   Devil  
    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160
  • [In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the primitive purity, and shortness, when men deliver'd so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars.

  • There's that confidence again, that semi-infuriating easiness of his, the tilt of his head and the smile. but today it's not infuriating. Today I like it, feel like it's somehow rubbing off on me, like if I was around him enough I would never feel awkward or frightened or insecure.

    "Delirium". Book by Lauren Oliver, January 1, 2011.
  • Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

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