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Matter Quotes - Page 57

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.425

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

John Lukacs (1990). “Confessions of an original sinner”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Jeremy Bentham (1844). “Benthamiana: Or Select Extracts from the Works of Jeremy Bentham. With an Outline of His Opinions on the Principal Subjects Discussed in His Works”, p.217

The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.

James Hillman (1981). “The thought of the heart”, Spring Pubns

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing