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- Nov 07, 2020
Bids Quotes
From commands to trades
In these bids quotes, the word takes on an older, literary sense of commanding or urging someone, as seen in reflections on personal conscience and duty, a theme that connects to our Desire quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
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- Nov 07, 2020