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Isaac D'Israeli (11 May 1766 – 19 January 1848) was a British writer, scholar and man of letters. He is best known for his essays, his associations with other men of letters, and as the father of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

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Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when he came to compare them with their originals, he was surprised to find that they were nothing for his purpose! the originals conveyed a quite contrary sense to that of the pretended quoters, who often, from innocent blundering, and sometimes from purposed deception, had falsified their quotations. This is an useful story for second-hand authorities!

Deception, Hands, Purposed, Work, Writing

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

Beautiful, Circles, Perfect, Mathematically, Large

This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only rejected AUTHORITY, but have also cast away EXPERIENCE; and often the unburthened vessel is driving to all points of the compass, and the passengers no longer know whither they are going. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by QUOTATION.

Wise, Innovation, Age, Passengers, Adventurous, Rejected

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

Men, Dunces, Consolation, Defects

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Life, Motivational, Secret, Hovers, Spirit, Enthusiasm

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.

Art, Inspiration, Practice, See, Undisputed

It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.

Abstraction, Appear, Atheism, Conducting, Stars, Team

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

Appears, Express, Natural, Oneself, Respect, Sentiments

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

Defects, Faults, Man, Men, Qualities, Quality

Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.

Action, Figure, Men, Pulse, Style, Throbbing

Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand. Those who trust to such false quoters will often learn how contrary this transmission is to the sense and application of the original. Every transplantation has altered the fruit of the tree; every new channel, the quality of the stream in its remove from the spring-head.

Hands, Names, Quoters, Spring, Taken, Transplantation

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

Educated, Marked, Peculiarities, Self, Stubborn

Those who never quote, in return are never quoted.

Quote, Quoted, Return

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

Criticism, Merit, Criticised, Read, Rarely

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

Creature, Genius, Habits, Men, Return, Returns

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat. , Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri. ]

Book, Home, Men, Libri, Homine, Cave

The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.

Action, Lovers, Ceremony, Negroes, Ceremonies

A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.

Book, Deliciæ, Fading, Ingenuity, Men, Writer

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

Mind, Furniture, Ancient

It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money according to their notions, our writers usually furnish their pages rapidly with the productions of their own soil: they run up a quickset hedge, or plant a poplar, and get trees and hedges of this fashion much faster than the former landlords procured their timber. The greater part of our writers, in consequence, have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them; and those who never quote, in return are never quoted!

Fashion, Hedge, People, Poplar, Running, Timber

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