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. -Norman Douglas

 

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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This quote is just one of 7 total Norman Douglas quotes in our collection. Norman Douglas is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

Norman Douglas

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Norman Douglas