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The Morals and Manners of the Seventeenth Century: Being the Characters of La Bruyere (no commercially available image)

Jean de la Bruyere
b. 8-16-1645; Paris, France
d. 5-10-1696; (stroke)

Jean de La Bruyere was an essayist and moralist of the late 17th century.

Jean de La Bruyere quotes ~
• “Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.”
• “The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.”
• “A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.”
• “Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.”
• “The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.”
• “If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.”
• “The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.”
• “The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.”
• “There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.”

William Cullen Bryant
b. 11-3-1794; Cummington, Massachusetts
d. 6-12-1878; NY

William Cullen Bryant was a romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.

His most remembered poems, staples in Amercian literture curriculums, are “Thanatopsis” and “To A Waterfowl”.

Bryant was one of the ‘Fireside Poets’ (Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier).

William Cullen Bryant ~
• “He, who, from zone to zone,
Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,
In the long way that I must tread alone,
Will lead my steps aright.” To A Waterfowl

• “The sweet calm sunshine of October, now/Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold
The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough/drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.”
• “When shrieked/The bleak November winds, and smote the woods /And the brown fields were herbless, and the shades/That met above the merry rivulet/Were spoiled, I sought, I loved them still; they seemed/Like old companions in adversity..”

• Thanatopsis / Poetry Forms Blank Verse Poster
• William Cullen Bryant at Amazon.com