ambition

Ben Jonson

breaking up

critic

doubt

dying

experience

happiness

humanity

love

moment

nature

obedience

political correctness

prayer

ridicule

Robert Browning

sleep

soldier

sorrow

spring

superorganic

Thomas Carlyle

Virgil

wisdom

woman

nationality

British

occupation / innovator as

poet

innovator in the field of

poetry

Poet 

politician

Member of the House of Lords

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

religion

Anglicanism

Royal Society

is like the sea wave, which the more you drink the more you thirst.

Ambition is like the sea wave, which the more you drink the more you thirst

is a writer whom reading is like wading through glue.

is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

A lie that is half a truth is ever tbs blackest of lies.

is (as self-censorship that comes as a result of intimidation or social pressures) a serious obstacle to the proper functioning of democracy on the grounds that it is important to hear the views of all persons,including the 'silent majority', and to give heed to the weaker voices.

Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as 'political correctness', constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper functioning of democracy. It is important to hear the views of all persons,including the 'silent majority', and to give heed to the weaker voices. Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

is a poet who has plenty of music in him, but he cannot get it out.

is the notion of culture as an integrated system more than biological, yet having its own, almost life-like dynamics.

the cultural whole as the superorganic, an integrated system that was more than biological, yet seemed to have its own innate dynamics, almost to live its own life. This is the reason for simultaneous inventions. .. .Kroeber referred to the cultural whole as the superorganic, an integrated system that was more than biological, yet seemed to have its own innate dynamics, almost to live its own life. Indeed, Kroeber is often considered an extreme methodological collectivist. Thus, in his article 'The superorganic' (1917, reprinted in Kroeber 1952), he points out that innovations are often made independently by different people in different locations. This, he argues, is evidence that cultures have their own autonomous dynamics, independent of individuals. (erikson 'history of anthropology' 65)

is a poet who is able to see Universal Nature moved by Universal Mind.

Thou that seest Universal Nature moved by Universal Mind;?Thou majestic in thy sadness at the doubtful doom of human kind.

is a Roman who singest lion's lofty temples robed in fire.

Roman Virgil, thou that singest Ilion's lofty temples robed in fire.

is majestic in his sadness at the doubtful doom of human kind.

is the wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man.

I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since my day began, Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man.

is distinguished from knowledge in that knowledge comes while wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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