Moulded Quotes
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They say, best men are moulded out of faults: And, for the most, become much more the better, For being a little bad.
— Mariana, scene i
In the mind perfect intelligence flourished and reigned, uprightness attended as its companion, and all the senses were prepared and moulded for due obedience to reason; and in the body there was a suitable correspondence with this internal order. But now, although some obscure lineaments of that image are found remaining in us; yet are they so vitiated and maimed, that they may truly be said to be destroyed. For besides the deformity which everywhere appears unsightly, this evil also is added, that no part is free from the infection of sin.
john calvin— Commentary on Genesis 1. [4]
Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the present moment, but the present spot, passion claims for its own, and brooding over it with wings outspread, stamps it with an image of itself. Passion is lord of infinite space, and distant objects please because they border on its confines and are moulded by its touch.
william hazlitt— "Why Distant Objects Please"
We spend the vast bulk of money in the health, welfare, and education systems in the later years of life. Yet it is in the earliest years that life chances are moulded and set.
bob rae— Chapter Six, The Second Question: Health, Education, and the Democratic Economy, p. 124
Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?
gerard manley hopkins— Hurrahing in Harvest, lines 1-4
Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.
algernon charles swinburne— A Word for the Country.
The birth of a sand grain is a microscopic event, a flap of butterfly’s wings heralding greater change and a larger creation. Each grain carries the equivalent of the DNA of its parents and develops a character through its life and is moulded partly by its environment. Compared to the scale of a human life, however, the sand grains’ story is never ending, and rebirth is a regular event.
— By Michael Welland in p.3 (Sand: The Never-ending Story)
My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
Miguel de Cervantes— Miguel de Cervantes, The Little Gypsy.
Said one among them: "Surely not in vain My substance of the common Earth was ta'en And to this Figure moulded, to be broke, Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again."
omar khayyám— Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120), Stanza 84. FitzGerald's translation.
Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo, Part III. 5.
