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Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.


Horace


#alert #arrest #before #carefully #decay

The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance.


Hu Shih


#century #dramas #frank #glorification #great

Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.


Penn Jillette


#around #did #festivals #i #kidding

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.


John Ruskin


#diminishing #done #heretofore #i #landscape

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.


Peter Lewis Allen


#first #foremost #had #lab #library

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.


Irving Babbitt


#away #degree #disciplinary #drift #expansion

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.


J. Irwin Miller


#equal #extract #indulge #live #money

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.


Pierre Schaeffer


#barbarity #certain #certain point #civilization #collapse

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts. Winston Churchill


H.A. Corby


#florence #italy #murder #mystery #renaissance

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.


Marsilio Ficino


#love #magic #philosophy #renaissance #spirituality






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