Quotes by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.

Life

Sea

War

All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.

Heart

Men

Spiritual

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.

Men

Military

Solitude

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

Pleasure

Trying

Work

Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.

Ideas

Interesting

Littles

Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

Culture

Wealth

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

Fashion

People

Study

Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.

Age

Friends

Intellectual

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

Attention

Pay

Wise

High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.

Class

Distance

Men

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Doe

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Fashion

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Goodness

Hart

Heart

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Knowing

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Library

Life

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May

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Quotes by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.

Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

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