Ezra Loomis Pound Famous Quotes



"The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort."

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at 18 and at 48.

"Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."


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"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
Conrad Hilton

"The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."
Lydia Maria Child

"Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon."
David Assael

It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.
Edgar Albert Guest

"Never despair but if you do, work on in despair."
Edmund Burke

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."
Thomas Alva Edison

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
Abraham Lincoln

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Loomis Pound

"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."
Thomas Carlyle