#dullness

Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#poetry #freedom

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #dullness #failure #general #general welfare

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#ever #gentle #joke #loves

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#bad one #dullness #excellence #good #good sign

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. ↗

— George Eliot

#dullness #nature #private #quarrels #reason

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor. ↗

— Charles Churchill

#him #marked #mayor #prudent

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung. ↗

— Josephus Daniels

#dullness #editor #hung #only #ought

What kind of life can you have in a house without books? ↗