Reads tagged with “letters”

Lord Chesterfield on the Art of Pleasing: Outlandish Advice to His Teenage Son, 1748

“You may often be seen to smile, but never heard to laugh while you live.”

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Inside Kurt Cobain’s Letters and Journals

“No amount of effort can save you from oblivion.”

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Alexander Graham Bell on Originality, Plagiarism, Language, and Education

“Our most original compositions are composed exclusively of expressions derived from others.”

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The Mahatma and the Poet: Tagore’s Letters to Gandhi on Power, Morality, and Science

“Passive resistance is a force which is not necessarily moral in itself; it can be used against truth as well as for it.”

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Seventeen-Year-Old Virginia Woolf on Nature, Imitation and the Arts

“All the Arts … imitate as far as they can the one great truth that all can see.”

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Dear John: Rare Recording of a Vietnam War Soldier Reading a Breakup Letter from Home

“Dear John I love you so, Dear John you’ve got to go.”

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Galileo vs. God: The Father of Modern Science on Religion, Truth, and Human Nature

“Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Who will assert that everything in the universe capable of being perceived is already discovered and known?”

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How to Be a Decent Person: Charles Dickens’s Letter of Advice to His Youngest Son

“Never take a mean advantage of anyone in any transaction, and never be hard upon people who are in your power.”

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Anton Chekhov on the 8 Qualities of Cultured People

“They are sincere, and dread lying like fire. They don’t lie even in small things.”

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Sherwood Anderson on Art and Life: A Letter of Advice to His Teenage Son

“The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.”

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Reads tagged with “letters”

“You may often be seen to smile, but never heard to laugh while you live.”

“No amount of effort can save you from oblivion.”

“Our most original compositions are composed exclusively of expressions derived from others.”

“Passive resistance is a force which is not necessarily moral in itself; it can be used against truth as well as for it.”

“All the Arts … imitate as far as they can the one great truth that all can see.”

“Dear John I love you so, Dear John you’ve got to go.”

“Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Who will assert that everything in the universe capable of being perceived is already discovered and known?”

“Never take a mean advantage of anyone in any transaction, and never be hard upon people who are in your power.”

“They are sincere, and dread lying like fire. They don’t lie even in small things.”

“The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.”

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