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Letter "T" » tributes
«It is not difficult to write in Spanish; the Spanish language is a gift from the gods which we Spaniards take for granted. I take comfort therefore in the belief that you wished to pay tribute to a glorious language and not to the humble writer who uses it for everything it can express: the joy and the wisdom of Mankind, since literature is an art form of all and for all, although written without deference, heeding only the voiceless, anonymous murmur of a given place and time.»
«Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.»
Author: Fulton J. Sheen
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Genius,
Jealousy,
Mediocrity
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«[The] most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.»
«In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.»
«The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.»
«Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.»
«The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it»
«The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.»
«A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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toil, tribute, tributes
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