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  1. A quotation from Henry Commager

    We do not need to fear ideas, but the censorship of ideas. We do not need to fear criticism, but the silencing of criticism. We do not need to fear excitement or agitation in the academic community, but timidity and apathy. We do not need to fear resistance to political leaders, but unquestioning acquiescence in whatever policies those leaders adopt.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday Review

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #acquiescence #agitation #apathy #censorship #criticism #dissent #intellectualfreedom #resistance #silencing #timidity #academicfreedom

  2. A quotation from Henry Commager

    We do not need to fear ideas, but the censorship of ideas. We do not need to fear criticism, but the silencing of criticism. We do not need to fear excitement or agitation in the academic community, but timidity and apathy. We do not need to fear resistance to political leaders, but unquestioning acquiescence in whatever policies those leaders adopt.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday Review

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #acquiescence #agitation #apathy #censorship #criticism #dissent #intellectualfreedom #resistance #silencing #timidity #academicfreedom

  3. A quotation from Henry Commager

    We do not need to fear ideas, but the censorship of ideas. We do not need to fear criticism, but the silencing of criticism. We do not need to fear excitement or agitation in the academic community, but timidity and apathy. We do not need to fear resistance to political leaders, but unquestioning acquiescence in whatever policies those leaders adopt.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday Review

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #acquiescence #agitation #apathy #censorship #criticism #dissent #intellectualfreedom #resistance #silencing #timidity #academicfreedom

  4. A quotation from Henry Commager

    We do not need to fear ideas, but the censorship of ideas. We do not need to fear criticism, but the silencing of criticism. We do not need to fear excitement or agitation in the academic community, but timidity and apathy. We do not need to fear resistance to political leaders, but unquestioning acquiescence in whatever policies those leaders adopt.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday Review

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #acquiescence #agitation #apathy #censorship #criticism #dissent #intellectualfreedom #resistance #silencing #timidity #academicfreedom

  5. A quotation from Henry Commager

    We do not need to fear ideas, but the censorship of ideas. We do not need to fear criticism, but the silencing of criticism. We do not need to fear excitement or agitation in the academic community, but timidity and apathy. We do not need to fear resistance to political leaders, but unquestioning acquiescence in whatever policies those leaders adopt.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday Review

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #acquiescence #agitation #apathy #censorship #criticism #dissent #intellectualfreedom #resistance #silencing #timidity #academicfreedom

  6. A quotation from Horace

    Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
    We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
    Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
    Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
    In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
    Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
    Who courts variety and fain would ring
    A thousand changes on the self-same string,
    Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
    Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
    Thus even error, shun’d without address,
    Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
     
    [Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
    decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
    obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
    deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
    serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
    qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
    delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
    in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing

  7. A quotation from Horace

    Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
    We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
    Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
    Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
    In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
    Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
    Who courts variety and fain would ring
    A thousand changes on the self-same string,
    Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
    Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
    Thus even error, shun’d without address,
    Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
     
    [Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
    decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
    obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
    deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
    serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
    qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
    delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
    in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing

  8. A quotation from Horace

    Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
    We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
    Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
    Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
    In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
    Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
    Who courts variety and fain would ring
    A thousand changes on the self-same string,
    Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
    Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
    Thus even error, shun’d without address,
    Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
     
    [Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
    decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
    obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
    deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
    serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
    qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
    delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
    in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing

  9. A quotation from Horace

    Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
    We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
    Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
    Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
    In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
    Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
    Who courts variety and fain would ring
    A thousand changes on the self-same string,
    Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
    Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
    Thus even error, shun’d without address,
    Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
     
    [Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
    decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
    obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
    deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
    serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
    qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
    delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
    in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing

  10. A quotation from Horace

    Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
    We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
    Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
    Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
    In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
    Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
    Who courts variety and fain would ring
    A thousand changes on the self-same string,
    Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
    Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
    Thus even error, shun’d without address,
    Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
     
    [Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
    decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
    obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
    deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
    serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
    qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
    delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
    in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing

  11. RE: mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYo

    Paul Farhi wrote about this, saying: "An organization dedicated to the First Amendment seeks to avoid hiring an entertainer who might say something protected by the First Amendment."
    #WHCA #media #cowardice #timidity

  12. RE: mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYo

    Paul Farhi wrote about this, saying: "An organization dedicated to the First Amendment seeks to avoid hiring an entertainer who might say something protected by the First Amendment."
    #WHCA #media #cowardice #timidity

  13. RE: mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYo

    Paul Farhi wrote about this, saying: "An organization dedicated to the First Amendment seeks to avoid hiring an entertainer who might say something protected by the First Amendment."
    #WHCA #media #cowardice #timidity

  14. RE: mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYo

    Paul Farhi wrote about this, saying: "An organization dedicated to the First Amendment seeks to avoid hiring an entertainer who might say something protected by the First Amendment."
    #WHCA #media #cowardice #timidity

  15. Last year the White House Correspondents' Association hired comedian Amber Ruffin to perform at their dinner, but then its cowardly leader Eugene Daniels fired her before she performed. This year cowardice at the WHCA continues: they are again too afraid to have a comedian perform at their dinner.
    #media #timidity #entertainment #WHCA

  16. Last year the White House Correspondents' Association hired comedian Amber Ruffin to perform at their dinner, but then its cowardly leader Eugene Daniels fired her before she performed. This year cowardice at the WHCA continues: they are again too afraid to have a comedian perform at their dinner.
    #media #timidity #entertainment #WHCA

  17. Last year the White House Correspondents' Association hired comedian Amber Ruffin to perform at their dinner, but then its cowardly leader Eugene Daniels fired her before she performed. This year cowardice at the WHCA continues: they are again too afraid to have a comedian perform at their dinner.
    #media #timidity #entertainment #WHCA

  18. Last year the White House Correspondents' Association hired comedian Amber Ruffin to perform at their dinner, but then its cowardly leader Eugene Daniels fired her before she performed. This year cowardice at the WHCA continues: they are again too afraid to have a comedian perform at their dinner.
    #media #timidity #entertainment #WHCA

  19. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #acceptability #acquiescence #cowardice #cowardliness #fashion #fear #respectability #socialcontract #socialill #timidity #weakness

  20. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #acceptability #acquiescence #cowardice #cowardliness #fashion #fear #respectability #socialcontract #socialill #timidity #weakness

  21. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #acceptability #acquiescence #cowardice #cowardliness #fashion #fear #respectability #socialcontract #socialill #timidity #weakness

  22. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #acceptability #acquiescence #cowardice #cowardliness #fashion #fear #respectability #socialcontract #socialill #timidity #weakness

  23. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #acceptability #acquiescence #cowardice #cowardliness #fashion #fear #respectability #socialcontract #socialill #timidity #weakness

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  25. Another fun idea for #NewYearsEve is to play some #Karaoke tunes. #ABCNotation is great for creating your own Karaoke #midi files. #TiMidity++ is a helpful midi player. What's your favorite #FOSS Karoke software. #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

  26. Another fun idea for #NewYearsEve is to play some #Karaoke tunes. #ABCNotation is great for creating your own Karaoke #midi files. #TiMidity++ is a helpful midi player. What's your favorite #FOSS Karoke software. #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

  27. Another fun idea for #NewYearsEve is to play some #Karaoke tunes. #ABCNotation is great for creating your own Karaoke #midi files. #TiMidity++ is a helpful midi player. What's your favorite #FOSS Karoke software. #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

  28. Another fun idea for #NewYearsEve is to play some #Karaoke tunes. #ABCNotation is great for creating your own Karaoke #midi files. #TiMidity++ is a helpful midi player. What's your favorite #FOSS Karoke software. #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

  29. A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

    Many voices are heard as we face a great decision. Comfort says, “Tarry a while.” Opportunism says, “This is a good spot.” Timidity asks, “How difficult is the road ahead?” […] If I know aught of the spirit and purpose of our Nation, we will not listen to Comfort, Opportunism, and Timidity. We will carry on.

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
    Speech (1937-01-20), Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C.

    More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #fdr #resolution #determination #advancement #comfort #decision #decisionmaking #excuse #opportunism #progress #timidity

  30. A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

    Many voices are heard as we face a great decision. Comfort says, “Tarry a while.” Opportunism says, “This is a good spot.” Timidity asks, “How difficult is the road ahead?” […] If I know aught of the spirit and purpose of our Nation, we will not listen to Comfort, Opportunism, and Timidity. We will carry on.

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
    Speech (1937-01-20), Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C.

    More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #fdr #resolution #determination #advancement #comfort #decision #decisionmaking #excuse #opportunism #progress #timidity

  31. A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

    Many voices are heard as we face a great decision. Comfort says, “Tarry a while.” Opportunism says, “This is a good spot.” Timidity asks, “How difficult is the road ahead?” […] If I know aught of the spirit and purpose of our Nation, we will not listen to Comfort, Opportunism, and Timidity. We will carry on.

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
    Speech (1937-01-20), Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C.

    More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #fdr #resolution #determination #advancement #comfort #decision #decisionmaking #excuse #opportunism #progress #timidity

  32. A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

    Many voices are heard as we face a great decision. Comfort says, “Tarry a while.” Opportunism says, “This is a good spot.” Timidity asks, “How difficult is the road ahead?” […] If I know aught of the spirit and purpose of our Nation, we will not listen to Comfort, Opportunism, and Timidity. We will carry on.

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
    Speech (1937-01-20), Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C.

    More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #fdr #resolution #determination #advancement #comfort #decision #decisionmaking #excuse #opportunism #progress #timidity

  33. A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

    Many voices are heard as we face a great decision. Comfort says, “Tarry a while.” Opportunism says, “This is a good spot.” Timidity asks, “How difficult is the road ahead?” […] If I know aught of the spirit and purpose of our Nation, we will not listen to Comfort, Opportunism, and Timidity. We will carry on.

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
    Speech (1937-01-20), Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C.

    More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #fdr #resolution #determination #advancement #comfort #decision #decisionmaking #excuse #opportunism #progress #timidity

  34. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 363 (1820)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #age #caution #gettingold #growingold #maturity #mistrust #overconfidence #rashness #selfconfidence #timidity #trust #youth

  35. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 363 (1820)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #age #caution #gettingold #growingold #maturity #mistrust #overconfidence #rashness #selfconfidence #timidity #trust #youth

  36. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 363 (1820)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #age #caution #gettingold #growingold #maturity #mistrust #overconfidence #rashness #selfconfidence #timidity #trust #youth

  37. A quotation from Hugo

    Strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other’s qualities.
     
    [Et puis, chose bizarre, le premier symptôme de l’amour vrai chez un jeune homme, c’est la timidité, chez une jeune fille, c’est la hardiesse. Ceci étonne, et rien n’est plus simple pourtant. Ce sont les deux sexes qui tendent à se rapprocher et qui prennent les qualités l’un de l’autre.]

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
    Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 3 “The House in the Rue Plumet,” ch. 6 (4.3.6) (1862) [tr. Hapgood (1887)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/75527/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #boldness #courage #fear #love #men #rolereversal #timidity #truelove #women #youth #courtship #shyness

  38. A quotation from Hugo

    Strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other’s qualities.
     
    [Et puis, chose bizarre, le premier symptôme de l’amour vrai chez un jeune homme, c’est la timidité, chez une jeune fille, c’est la hardiesse. Ceci étonne, et rien n’est plus simple pourtant. Ce sont les deux sexes qui tendent à se rapprocher et qui prennent les qualités l’un de l’autre.]

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
    Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 3 “The House in the Rue Plumet,” ch. 6 (4.3.6) (1862) [tr. Hapgood (1887)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/75527/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #boldness #courage #fear #love #men #rolereversal #timidity #truelove #women #youth #courtship #shyness

  39. A quotation from Hugo

    Strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other’s qualities.
     
    [Et puis, chose bizarre, le premier symptôme de l’amour vrai chez un jeune homme, c’est la timidité, chez une jeune fille, c’est la hardiesse. Ceci étonne, et rien n’est plus simple pourtant. Ce sont les deux sexes qui tendent à se rapprocher et qui prennent les qualités l’un de l’autre.]

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
    Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 3 “The House in the Rue Plumet,” ch. 6 (4.3.6) (1862) [tr. Hapgood (1887)]

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  40. A quotation from John Adams

    The true source of our sufferings, has been our timidity.

    John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
    Essay (1765-09-30), “A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law,” No. 3, Boston Gazette

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  41. A quotation from John Adams

    The true source of our sufferings, has been our timidity.

    John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
    Essay (1765-09-30), “A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law,” No. 3, Boston Gazette

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  42. Was nutzt man eigentlich für MIDIs, wenn man Software haben will, die in den letzten 6 Jahren mal aktualisiert wurde? (Looking at you, #timidity++)

  43. Was nutzt man eigentlich für MIDIs, wenn man Software haben will, die in den letzten 6 Jahren mal aktualisiert wurde? (Looking at you, #timidity++)

  44. Was nutzt man eigentlich für MIDIs, wenn man Software haben will, die in den letzten 6 Jahren mal aktualisiert wurde? (Looking at you, #timidity++)

  45. A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore:

    «
    There is nothing to be done with that type of citizen of whom all that can be said is that he is harmless. Virtue which is dependent upon a sluggish circulation is not impressive. There is little place in active life for the timid good man.
    »

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  46. A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore:

    «
    There is nothing to be done with that type of citizen of whom all that can be said is that he is harmless. Virtue which is dependent upon a sluggish circulation is not impressive. There is little place in active life for the timid good man.
    »

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  47. A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore:

    «
    There is nothing to be done with that type of citizen of whom all that can be said is that he is harmless. Virtue which is dependent upon a sluggish circulation is not impressive. There is little place in active life for the timid good man.
    »

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  48. A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore:

    «
    There is nothing to be done with that type of citizen of whom all that can be said is that he is harmless. Virtue which is dependent upon a sluggish circulation is not impressive. There is little place in active life for the timid good man.
    »

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  49. A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore:

    «
    There is nothing to be done with that type of citizen of whom all that can be said is that he is harmless. Virtue which is dependent upon a sluggish circulation is not impressive. There is little place in active life for the timid good man.
    »

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  50. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld, Francois:

    «
    We are held to our duty by laziness and timidity, but often our virtue gets all the credit.
     
    [Pendant que la paresse et la timidité nous retiennent dans notre devoir, notre vertu en a souvent tout l’honneur.]
    »

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