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Talk:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how late it will be too soon.” Can anyone provide a citation? This is widely spread on internet memes but I cannot find it.

Wrongly Attributed

 * "Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door."
 * Emerson actually said, "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell ... you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house."

 * "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." -- attributed sometimes to Emerson
 * In fact the quote is "If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming." by Goethe

 * "Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures." -- often attributed to Emerson
 * Actually "Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures" by Jessamyn West in her 1957 book To See the Dream. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=E39LAAAAMAAJ&dq=to+see+the+dream&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=fiction+reveals

 * "Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude."
 * Seems to have come from Wallace D. Wattles in chapter 7 of The Science of Getting Rich

 * "The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."
 * Doesn't seem to appear in the Civilization chapter of Society and Solitude (1870). See e.g. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/69258/pg69258-images.html

Further Amendment
The original quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson writing in his journal in 1855 was "I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.".

The popular version was born when in 1889 Sarah S. B. Yule and Mary S. Keene, preparing a lecture, tried to recall Emerson's exact words. They could not. But they came close, deciding he had said: "If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods the world will make a beaten path to his door."
 * That link is dead, I added the quote to the Misattributions section, and found another source. Johndburger 15:20, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Duh, turns out to be same source as in the first section above. Any reason this (very common) misatt isn't in the main article? Johndburger 15:22, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I have added the Yule/Keene initiated misquote, but the link you gave is also dead, so I havent described that misquote. John Vandenberg 10:12, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

formatting
why are some quotes in bold? Better to keep it all consistent (non-bold font).

 * See Village_pump_archive_3 where it's discussed in general. But if you disagree with what's here specifically, you can either discuss or edit it, and you'd see what others who edited here might have to say. Also see How_to_edit_a_page about using ~ in order to sign your comments. iddo999 21:25, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Sources Please
No doubt this has been discussed before, but as a scholar, I badly need a published source for all quotations. This is a major problem with all other quotation lists I've found -- they seem to be aimed at after-dinner speakers or pop newspaper writers -- but it is sorely needed for writing academic papers. My particular need is for Ralph Waldo Emerson's quotation, "I hate quotation." I do have May 1849 journal, but the source of the quote would be great -- Not all of us have libraries which would have a published edition of the RWE's journals. Cheers, 20:39, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Simply add the quotes below. Thank you!

Source Needed
"The key to the period is that the mind became aware of itself." Can anyone provide a source and add it to the article? Thanks, --75.165.18.223 06:22, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Did He Say This?
"For every minute you spend angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." I have seen this on the internet as being attributed to him, but I do not see it here and cannot find it anywhere on the entire site. Does anyone know if he said this, and if he didn't who did? I know this is a book of photographs by Julian Germain, but I doubt he coined this phrase. Thanks. Gammatigerx 19:23, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

"What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say" This quote has also been attributed to him on the internet, but I cannot find it anywhere either in this page or with a the literary work where it was pulled out from. Does anyone know if he did say this? and if not, does anyone know who actually did? Thanks.
 * It certainly does appear in a million places online! From his Journals (In my Signet Classic Selected Writings of RWE, p95.):
 * "August-September, 1840. Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while & thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." Yesenadam (talk) 00:41, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

"Life is a journey, not a destination." This quote is widely attributed to Emerson on the Internet, but I have never seen it sourced.

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." Yet another widely attributed to Emerson yet never sourced.

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing." - earliest source I have found thus far is in A dictionary of Thoughts by Tryon Edwards published in 1908 (avail. via Google Books - but it isn't sourced in that book. I can't find it sourced anywhere but it is attributed to Emerson on the Internet multiple times.

 * The earliest appearance I could find of this quote was in the People's & Howitt's Journal, Vol. V (1846), p. 320. Unfortunately, only a "snippet view" is available online, so I couldn't see who the author of the essay is. In any case, I transcribed the passage, in the hopes that someone will be able to find it.—
 * «...Oh! there are precious and sweetly insinuating avenues into human hearts which nature only knows; and while we gaze upon her face, her loveliness appeals so growingly, so irresistibly to human affection; and the best of it is, we grow better by loving her. Why should we muddle ourselves in dull despondency, or fret because of evils which, if we cannot altogether shake off, may be wonderfully alleviated by intercourse, not so much with man in pent-up cities, as with the forests, and sky, and rocks, and water; with the babbling brooks and green fields which are so easily accessible. Men may deceive us, but the silent voice of the pathless woods—never; the stars look down with their brilliant eyes into the recesses of our troubled spirits, and, as the psalmist poetically yet truly expresses it, "There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard."
 * Working men! chained to that oar which, once fast tied to, men shall quit no more, add not another link to your fetters; come out occasionally from the smoke and din and bustle, from the wordy warfare, and from the agitation of complaining strife; come to the green fields, and, as the summer breeze fans your temples, and the evening sunlight gleams on the tranquil water; hold for a few moments sweet intercourse with self. Bring your children with you. Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful—remembering that a tree is always far more exquisitely so than a picture of a tree in a royal gallery, even thong painted by a Turner or a Stanfield. Recognise loveliness in nature, whether in the changeful clouds or sparkling water wending its own-sweet way like a thread of silver at its own quiet will—as the sign-manual of Deity, purity in the blush of the morning sky-you will interpret that as the transcript of his holiness to be reflected into your own feelings, your own life...»
 * In the meantime, I added the quote as you presented it to the main article, as an attribution. Cheers, DanielTom (talk) 18:52, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

"Fame is proof that [the] people are gullible." Widely attributed to Emerson, as early as 1897 according to what I found on Google Books, and cited quite often in recent years, but it doesn't sound like Emerson to me and I can't find a trace of the quote before 1897. --Potosino (talk) 03:26, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * A man is made by the books he reads.

 * A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

 * Do not believe that you can possibly escape the reward of your action.

 * Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
 * Also attributed to Muriel Strode.

 * Fear always springs from ignorance.

 * Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. To-morrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
 * According to James Elliot Cabot's Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888) this was something he wrote 'To one of his daughters who was away from home, at school'.
 * The Cabot book is available online (quote on p. 489). I would also note that this is widely if only slightly misquoted as "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.  Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." Why does the quote remain listed as unsourced? Isn't this Cabot source sufficient to move the quote to the main page? --Hughh (talk) 16:31, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

 * I no more remember the books I have read than the meals I have eaten, but they have made me.

 * If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

 * It is an amiable illusion, which the shape of our planet prompts, that every man is at the top of the world.

 * Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

 * Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
 * Works, p. 426

 * People only see what they are prepared to see.
 * Derived (as Emerson states) from Elliott Cabot's "on the Relation of Art to Nature" (1864) -- not having access to that paper, I do not know what Cabot has said exactly, although I would be interested in knowing so.

 * Salvation would not be a question of accepting a creed, but of acquiring insight.

 * The Bhagavad Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Lord Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.

 * The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

 * The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with their friendship.

 * The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

 * Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. (see also: Truth & Lies)

 * To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
 * This seems to be a misattribution of a passage from E.E. Cummings's A Poet's Advice: "To be nobody - but -yourself-- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

 * What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
 * This has also been attributed to Thoreau, William Maran, William Morrow and Oliver Wendell Holmes (father and son), but no precise source has been found in any of their works. It does appear in Henry Stanley Haskins's Meditations in Wall Street (1940) and may possibly be Haskins's own coinage..

 * When you strike at a King, you must kill him.
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes, in his Ralph Waldo Emerson (1885), gives this as Emerson's reply to 'a young friend of mine in his college days' who had told Emerson that he was writing an essay about, and presumably critical of, Plato.

 * Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.

 * When it is darkest, men see the stars.

 * Be silly, be honest, be kind.

 * It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

 * Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.

 * Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

 * Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. --Hughh (talk) 20:40, 1 January 2017 (UTC) [widely quoted but never with a citation]

Quote: The Universe Conspires to make it happen
Attribution to this quote -- Joseph Campbell, Follow Your Bliss ... Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. Campbell makes this statement in the interview he did with Bill Moyers in 1988.

The phrase is from Paulo Coelho's book, The Alchemist, originally published in 1988.

Immortality ... Tell me what you know.

 * Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
 * May 1849: This is a remark Emerson wrote referring to the unreliability of second hand testimony and worse upon the subject of immortality. It is often taken out of proper context, and has even begun appearing on the internet as "I hate quotations. Tell me

I just restored the above factual commentary regarding this quote. A simple Google search for "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know" presently yields "about 282,000 results." One for "I hate quotations" yields About 355,000 results, and one for I hate quotations emerson (without quotemarks) yields "about 657,000 results." I believe this confirms the statements regarding misquotations of the statement, and the factual assertion of the actual context, which introduces the observations on its misquotation, can be confirmed by simply reading the statement itself, where he is perhaps making allusions to mystical conceptions or experiences of immortality, but whether that is clear or definite or not, he is certainly referring to immortality. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:15, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Anyone know the source of this quote?
I see it online in various places attributed to Emerson, but can't find where it's from.

''The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.''

-- OlEnglish (talk) 16:58, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

 * Hard question. You can find it in the hymnbook Singing the Living Tradition, but without a source. The earliest(?) appearance of this "Emerson-like quote" is in a 1970s prayerbook which uses quotation marks, but provides no citation – which means the quote may, or may not, be adapted from Emerson. See discussions here and here. ~ DanielTom (talk) 18:13, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

"Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn"

false quote on page (joke, prank?)
A few entries down from start page reads: "The only thing better than fag dragging blackout drunk is fat dragging blackout drunk and high on crack. In a letter to Walt Whitman (1839)"

There was no " high on crack" in his time (Anachronism); crack is 1980s term for rock cocaine; craic is irish slang, not high on 2600:1700:AD20:F000:68FA:E566:90DA:2E5F 18:11, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

 * This seems a reasonable concern and I have not been able to source the placed letter. the quote also lacks context. The quote was introduced recently at Special:Diff/3219562 by  who appears to have no other sustained contributions on this wiki.  I have therefore chosen to revert that contribution.  Thankyou. -- User:Djm-leighpark(a)talk 22:11, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Copyvio and misquote
@Ottawahitech : The content you have battled to re-introduce at Special:Diff/3230021 appears to have a number of issues: I strongly suggest you gain consensus here before re-introducing. Thankyou. -- User:Djm-leighpark(a)talk 20:45, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
 * It is not properly attributed and I believe strictly speaking it is a copyvio. Some might argue it is not a copyvio, but in my opinion you've been semi-distruptively nibbling at people just recently and if it is a copyvio its two strikes and your out as far as I understand it.  My call of a copyvio here is precautionary and may on discussion found not to be accurate, or it may be regarded as a minor copyvio, but I think there is enough of a case for me to take good faith precautionary action even if ultimately I am found to be incorrect.
 * I believe the Engish Wikipedia article is guilty of misquoting the source it is claiming,
 * It is not formatted and introduced in the style/manner of what I regard is a high profile article.
 * I must immediately add that while writing that thanked me for (I think) Special:diff/3230032 which was a brilliant response and makes my criticism above seem harsh.  As another point the source book is borrowable from open library and I am working on a tool to load book editions to Wikidata for leverage by Cite Q (project "chicken").  However I do had a pre-chicken spreadsheet (project egg) which I will try to load this book edition to wikidata and hope to use on on McAleer forthwith. The above quote is certainly significant but IMHO requires careful introduction into this important article and that is beyond my skillset. Thankyou. -- User:Djm-leighpark(a)talk 21:03, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ (available on one hour borrows online with registration): User:Djm-leighpark(a)talk 21:36, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

 * I'm looking at that passage in Ralph Waldo Emerson: days of encounter now. Perhaps we can quote it exactly as it is in the book, with proper attribution? "At length he could not recollect his own name. [Moncure Daniel] Conway said that in those last years, when someone asked him how he felt, he answered: 'Quite well; I have lost my mental faculties, but am quite well.'" (John J. McAleer, Ralph Waldo Emerson: days of encounter, p. 629) Antandrus (talk) 21:08, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Also took out the "anyone" phrasing at enwiki. Curiously difficult to get that quote of a quote of a quote thing right, without naming everyone. Antandrus (talk) 21:16, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

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Thief (series)

Note: This page may contain spoilers.

Quotes from or about Thief, an electronic game series. See Thievery for quotes about the crime, or Thief (arcade game) for the coin-op video game.

Note: This page may contain spoilers.

Quotes by Garrett

 * "Bafford, like most of his kind, probably keeps his treasures on the top floor of the place. Close to his heart...and far from his servants."
 * Source: Mission I: Lord Bafford's Manor

 * "Inside at last."
 * Source: Mission I: Lord Bafford's Manor

 * "Heh! It's a throne room. How pretentious can you get?"
 * Source: Mission I: Lord Bafford's Manor

 * "I went to Cutty's place to deliver the scepter, but Cutty wasn't there. He'd been arrested by the Hammerites. Apparently they didn't approve of his occupation, and I doubt they approve of mine. So hopefully they'll never catch sight of me when I break him out of their prison. Which is what I'm going to do."
 * Source: Mission II: Break from Cragscleft Prison

 * "I'd rather not have to do this job, but Cutty's a reliable fence, and I don't appreciate the Hammerites abducting him. And he owes me money for the Bafford job...."
 * Source: Mission II: Break from Cragscleft Prison

 * "I was pissed at Cutty for a good while after the...prison debacle. But hey, you can't blame him for what the Hammers did to him. So I decided to go after that horn Felix talked about. Not like I had a whole lot of choice, really...the rent is due...and my landlord's even tougher than the Hammers."
 * Source: Mission III: Down in the Bonehoard

 * "Felix, always helpful, also said that the catacombs are supposed to be haunted. Think I'll go make some inquiries about where a 'heretic' like me can get some holy water. Always go prepared...."
 * Source: Mission III: Down in the Bonehoard

 * "Tombs with piped in music. How classy."
 * Source: Mission III: Down in the Bonehoard

 * "That shot was meant for me."
 * Source: Mission IV: Assasins

 * "I was going to pay Lord Randall and his vase collection a visit, but the Downwind Thieves' Guild beat me to the score."
 * Source: Mission V: Thieves' Guild
 * Note: This mission is in the Gold edition of Thief.

 * "Apparently their leaders...Donal and Reuben...are arguing over the prized sapphire vase. Sounds like they could use a third party to settle their disagreement. Since I'm no mediator, I'll just steal the vase from them. They'll be so busy blaming each other no one will suspect an outsider."
 * Source: Mission V: Thieves' Guild
 * Note: This mission is in the Gold edition of Thief.

 * "I guess if you're rich enough you can build any sort of madhouse to live in."
 * Source: Mission VI: The Sword

 * "I prefer my payment in CASH...not liquor, Mister...ahh..."
 * Source: Mission VI: The Sword (first cutscene)

 * "No. Fanatics make unreliable friends."
 * Source: Mission VI: The Sword (first cutscene)

 * "It's a rock. It's what you asked for.  Am I gonna get paid or not?"
 * Source: Mission XIII: Escape! (second cutscene)

 * "This was not the way things were supposed to go. Constantine has The Eye, and MY eye, and I doubt he has anything wholesome planned for it. So the Trickster was real after all, I doubt anyone except the Hammers believed in the ancient gods. Those crazy Hammers. You know, it wouldn't hurt to have a dozen of heavily armed fanatics by my side. I'll drop by their temple and explain things, hopefully they'll be so distracted with the Trickster's return that they'll forget to hold a grudge. And even if they don't, I know how to get out of Cragscleft prison already."
 * Source: Mission XIV: Strange Bedfellows

End Scene
Keeper: So you think you've won. Garrett: I think I've got my eye back. Keeper: Yet...still...you are blind. Garrett: If you hadn't noticed, I just saved the world. Yourself included. Keeper: As we knew you would. As it had to be. Garrett: Now I remember why I left the Keepers. Keeper: And I remember why we let you go. Garrett: What do you want from me? [Sarcastically] You come to congratulate me? Welcome me back to the fold? Keeper: Very well. I will speak my piece plainly. You have accomplished that which was written, and YES... you've done it well. But there is no place for you with us any longer. Yet you will have a great need of us, and soon. Garrett: I don't think so. I'm through with heroics. Garrett: And with your kind as well. Keeper: You cannot run from life as you did from us, Garrett. Life has a way of finding you. No matter how artistic a sneak you are. Listen...there is a book that you were not made aware of. I'm here to tell you that it would be WISE for you to read it now...if you can still read hieroglyphs. Garrett: I do try to forget, but you Keepers leave them everywhere for me. Keeper: Yes. You have more friends than you know. Garrett: Tell my "friends" that I don't need their secret book. Or their glyph warnings, or their messengers! Tell them I'm through! Tell them it's over! Tell them Garrett is done! (walks away) Keeper: I will tell them this: Nothing has changed. All is as it was written. The Trickster is dead. Beware the dawn...of the Metal Age.
 * Garrett: [Makes a sound of contempt.] Keepers!

Miscellaneous Quotes

 * "Thou shalt not rob from the house I have built, or commit any theft or unrighteousness, lest ye be struck down and driven into the earth forthwith, and the land of the heathen consume you." -The Book of the Stone
 * Source: intro movie.

 * "We chose our profession in defiance of the greed of the monarchy. We will not live for the sake of taxes to fatten the nobles pockets. We choose to live the only life available to those who would be truly free. We are thieves." -Wall Plaque in the Thieves Guild
 * Source: Mission 5 Theives' Guild
 * Note: This mission is in the Gold edition of Thief.

 * "The essence of balance is detachment. To embrace a cause, to grow fond or spiteful, is to lose one's balance, after which, no action can be trusted. Our burden is not for the dependent of spirit." -Mayar, Third Keeper
 * Source: Mission I: A Keeper's training

 * "I was a kid. No parents, no home, running messages or picking pockets to keep my ribs from meeting my spine. One day I saw a man, folks just passed him by as if he wasn't there. I thought he must have something valuable, so I snuck up on him and made a grab.

Keeper Artemus: That's not for you.

Garrett: Please sir, I'm hungry. Don't tell the Hammers, I promise...

Keeper Artemus: What is your name, boy?

Garrett: Garrett.

Keeper Artemus: You have talent, lad.

Garrett: Let go of me old man!

Keeper Artemus: To see a Keeper is not an easy thing, especially one who does not wish to be seen. We have a need for those as gifted as yourself. If you've grown tired of how you live, come with me and we will show you a different way.

Garrett: Leave me alone!

Keeper Artemus: As you wish.

I caught up with him just before he vanished into the crowd. It was the beginning of a very long education."
 * Source: Mission I: A Keeper's Training

 * "The most promising acolyte left us, not out of the lesser folly of sentiment, but the greater folly of anger. His heart was clouded, and his balance was lost, but his abilities were unmatched. Even then, we knew to watch him most carefully." -Keeper Annals
 * Source: Mission II: Lord Bafford's Manor

 * "Before death came, the liars were made to feast upon the hands of the thieves, and the thieves were made to ingest the tongues of their liar brothers, and we praised the Master Builder for his judgements." -The Hammer Book of Tenets
 * Source: Mission III: Break from Cragscleft Prison

 * "...And the manfools piled rock on rocks and raised a treesie roof, hammers saws tear the skin of goodsie wood... ...and laughs at the Woodsie Lord. ...And when learns the Lord of this, He sends His beastesses to the manfools... ...who attacks and hammers saws their useless fleshes, and build him a house of they rotting skins." -Unattributed Trickster song
 * Source: Mission IV: Down in the Bonehoard

 * "The ancient corruption was again contained. To do more would have upset the balance, but we knew to remain ever vigilant lest it resurface. Neither the Hammers nor the pagans could be trusted not to meddle." -Keeper Annals
 * Source: Mission V: Assassins

 * "In the beginning we lived as thieves, Stealing fur and fang of beasts for survival. Then came the Builder who brought us the Hammer, And with it we forged a new way of life. To reject the Hammer is to denounce the Builder." -The Hammer Book of Tenets
 * Source: Mission 1: Thieves' Guild
 * Note: This mission is in the Gold edition of Thief.

 * "Builds your roofs of dead wood. Builds your walls of dead stone. Builds your dreams of dead thoughts. Comes crying laughing singing back to life, takes what  you steal, and pulls the skins from your dead bones shrieking." -Clay tablet in an abandoned Trickster temple
 * Source: Mission VI: The Sword

 * "Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum." -Collected letters of the smith-in-exile
 * Source: Mission VII: The Haunted Cathedral

 * "The knowledge of those who came before could neither be disseminated or destroyed. Its power would be a dangerous tool in the wrong hands, but would also insure against future cataclysm. At that time we chose to maintain it with  writings preserved in extant locations." -Keeper Annals
 * Source: Mission VII: The Lost City

 * "Since you left us, you've been a stone rolling downhill. Now you must aim this remarkable momentum. It is past time for the balance to shift."
 * Source: Mission XI: Escape!

 * "The stone cannot know why the chisel cleaves it; the iron cannot know why the fire scorches it. When thy life is cleft and scorched, when death and despair leap at thee, beat not thy breast and curse thy evil fate, but thank the Builder for the trials that shape thee." -The Hammer Book of Tenets
 * Source: Mission XII: Strange Bedfellows

 * "Hadst I a hammer, wouldst I hammer in the morning. Wouldst I hammer in the evening, all over this land."
 * Source: Hammerite Compendium of Precepts, Regimens, and Rules of Conduct, Vol. 39: Mission XII: Strange Bedfellows

 * "Greed shall be your undoing, poor Garrett."-Oracle Statue
 * Source: Mission VIII: The Mage Towers

Quotations about Thief: The Dark Project

 * "Thief is the single most terrifying, immersive, and rewarding game I have played and the one single-player game I continue to replay. In addition to the overriding stealth gamestyle, it is loaded with unique elements that hold one in the world. I love the setting, a medieval tech fantasy world that owes less to D&D than to such literary lights as Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance and Michael Shea. It has a spare, but well-crafted storyline, eccentric NPCs, brilliant verse, and unparalleled sound design. Then there are the enormous, intricate levels: Sprawling towns (both populated and ruinous), haunted crypts, bizarre mansions, lost cities, and the finest subterranean sequences in any game the climactic level being a surreal descent that convinced me I had scrambled many miles towards the earth's core. There are countless books I wish I had written; Thief is one of the few games I wish I had worked on." - Marc Laidlaw, Valve (writer/designer: Half-Life)

Quotes by Garrett

 * "I've always equated "feelings" with "getting caught"...they both get in the way of my money. Unfortunately not everyone is as committed to their work as I am."
 * Source: Mission I: Running Interference

 * "I make it a policy never to take a job so sentimental, but the Rumford manor could be a lucrative opportunity for a man like me. It would also mean that Basso would owe me a favour...And in this line of work, you can never have too many of those."
 * Source: Mission I: Running Interference

 * "Huh! This proves it...going legit is more trouble than it's worth...."
 * Source: Mission I: Running Interference

 * "Huh! Wasn't that long ago that I was planning on my retirement...now the only thing that's getting retired is my standards."
 * Source: Mission II: Shipping... and Receiving

 * "Hagen is Sheriff Truart's number two man and has no doubt made life difficult for someone he shouldn't have."
 * Source: Mission III: Framed
 * Note: In this mission, Garrett frames Lt. Hagen

 * "I realize that breaking into Shoalsgate is like looking down a Burrick's mouth with a lit match, but it would pay me enough to lay low for a while. And it doesn't hurt to be giving the police some dirty laundry to deal with either. Besides, with my luck if I don't take this job I could end up in there anyway."
 * Source: Mission III: Framed
 * Note: Shoalsgate is the city watch headquarters.

 * "The smell of ale and smoke from the place wasn't enough to cover up the stench of an ambush. A couple of Watch officers were there waiting for me. Judging by the look on Sunny's face, I'd say he sold me out."
 * Source: Mission IV: Ambush

 * "They didn't seem interested in bringing me in either. The bluecoats were looking for swift justice. Fortunately, I always have an ace up my sleeve."
 * Source: Mission IV: Ambush

 * "Iron trees? Not in my part of town."
 * Source: Mission IV cutscene: Ambush

 * "Tell you what. You keepers can plant a few shrubs about town and I'll take care of me. I'll find my own way home."
 * Source: Mission IV cutscene: Ambush

 * "I know they're trying to manipulate me, but keepers never alter the truth... just keep it in the shadows."
 * Source: Mission V: Eavesdropping

 * "Looks like I have something useful to learn from a seminary for a change."
 * Source: Mission V: Eavesdropping

 * "I'd rather not tread where the dead sleep."
 * Source: Mission V: Eavesdropping

 * "This situation does have one advantage... things can't get any worse. Who could hire someone like the sheriff to kill me?"
 * Source: Mission V: Eavesdropping

 * "I'm not surprised that the Mechanists are not the saints they claim to be, no one in this city is."
 * Source: Mission VI: First City Bank and Trust

 * "It didn't take much to learn that the Mechanists do all their banking with First City Bank and Trust, one of the wealthiest establishments in town, catering to the needs of the city's upper crust."
 * Source: Mission VI: First City Bank and Trust

 * "No doubt the bank is well protected by Mechanist security machines, in addition to the usual guard contingent. Risky... but you know, I've always wanted a good enough excuse to break into First City Bank and Trust. And I always thought I'd be taking the risk, just for the money."
 * Source: Mission VI: First City Bank and Trust
 * Note: Now his other reason is to blackmail the sheriff.

 * "It's time for a face to face chat with my old friend Sheriff Truart. Work out our differences, show him the little piece of evidence I lifted from the Mechanists. I'm sure he'll appreciate the consequences if this were to be made public. Truart was acting for somebody when his cronies ambushed me back at the Crippled Burrick inn... I bet he'll be happy to tell me who that was."
 * Source: Mission VII: Blackmail

 * "I don't know what's going on, and I don't like that."
 * Source: Mission VIII: Trace the Courier

 * "If I believed in it, now it would be a good time for me to wish for luck."
 * Source: Mission IX: Trail of Blood

Victoria: "Is this really Garrett the Master Thief I hear talking? If danger is going to be a problem for you, then..." Garrett: "Just-- give me the details."
 * Garrett: "Angelwatch? Is this how our arrangement is gonna work, you coming up with ways for me to get myself killed?"
 * Source: Mission X: Life of the Party

 * Garrett: "So this is the city of the future? I prefer my Tenement instead."
 * Source: Mission X: Life of the Party

Garrett: "Not literally?" Victoria: "That wasn't necessary.
 * Victoria: "Our guest Cavador just spilled his guts."
 * Source: Mission XIII: Casing the Joint

Quotes by Karras

 * "But lo, how easily evil is felled, when the righteous hold the mace! Thou art transparent to me, Garrett, even now I can see thou seeking to stop me, but there is naught you can do."
 * Source: Mission XV: Sabotage at Soulforge

 * "I know not why you oppose me. In one act, I will end all human suffering, and clear the path for the Builder to walk again on earth, history will move forward! My tireless children will build in his name, creating advancements beyond our understanding. Now, it is the dark time before the days of light! Why dost thou oppose me?"
 * Source: Mission XV: Sabotage at Soulforge

 * "Soon all will be blessed with the breath of the Builder, the Necrotic Mutox that I created. And all the souls... the rich that spurned me, the City Watch that betrayed me, the loathsome pagans, the mindless commoners, even the loyal followers of Karras, all will receive the blessing... and the cleansing. But will they lift up their arms and praise Karras, as the vapours make them pure? Nay! They will wail, and scream, most ungrateful!"
 * Source: Mission XV: Sabotage at Soulforge

 * "What hast thou... built, Garrett? When the time comes to review thy life, with the Master Builder afore thee, and the question is asked: what hast thou built, what will thee say, poor Garrett? For thou art a man of... destruction, not construction. Tis the biggest sin of all. Build thyself today a good house, that would please Him much!"
 * Source: Mission XV: Sabotage at Soulforge

 * "And Karras said, ‘Lay down thy hammer, friends, 'tis yesteryear's trappings.' And so we laid them down, and seeing this, Karras spoke again: ‘Now raise up thy mace, The Builder shall fuel thee...and all the followers of Karras.'"
 * Source: Thief: The Dark Wiki

Written Quotations
Is weakness for the strong But strength for the weak. Wisdom and balance lie in knowing your own nature over time." -Chronicle of the Metal Age
 * "Reliance upon others

Others know is as ignorant as if he Learns nothing. The treasures of knowledge Are the most rare, and guarded most harshly." -Chronicle of the First Age
 * "The man who learns only what

Strike A Man And Call Forth Fury To Shape Man Or Metal To Thy Will Thou Must Strike With Force" -Collected Sermons of Karras
 * "Strike Hot Iron And Call Forth Sparks

Sings We A Dances Of Mans, Who Smells Gold And Slays His Brother." -Pagan Saying
 * "Sings We A Dances Of Wolfs, Who Smells Fear And Slays The Coward.

Stoney Walls They Trappers Wind, Iron Stove It Trappers Fire. Trappers Is We By The Works Of Hands, And Forgets Us We Were Ever Free." -Inked Grass Scroll
 * "Bricky Roads They Trappers Grass,

Too Light A Hand, And He Follows His Own Whim; Too Heavy A Hand, And He Will Turn On You." -Chronicle of the Metal Age
 * "To Manipulate A Man Is A Careful Project.

Let Him Be Struck With Stone And Iron To Forge Away His Flaws." -Collected Sermons of Karras
 * "He Who Keeps His Work In Disorder Gives Home To Chaos.

Rounds O' Glow Brights n Them Summer Night Sky, Saids Them To Us That Winter Comes Earlies, Summer Is Gone, And The Harvest Is Fled." -From A Pagan Song
 * "Saws We Them Man O' Moons Faces,

With The Greatest Of All Treasures - The Future! But Thine Own Will Forges The Key That Opens The Lock." -Karras, Private Correspondence
 * "The Builder Has Gifted Thee

Some Events Were To Prove More Complex Than We Had Predicted. The Most Unlikely Of Alliances Was Also The Most Effective." -Chronicle of the Metal Age
 * "Even With All We Had Learned,

That protects us from the squalid past Knowledge is our weapon With which we carve our path To an enlightened future." -Hammerite Chant
 * "Vigilance is our shield

Calls The Ravens To Pecks Their Eyes! Calls The Jackals, Carry Thems Away Their Children To Gnaw Bones In The Night!" -Pagan Curse
 * "Calls The Serpents To The Heels Of My Foes!

We Saw The Heights Civilization Can Attain. When We Looked At Their Ruins, We Marked The Danger Of That Height." -Keeper Annals
 * "When We Looked At The Relics Of The Precursors,

And Those To Whom It Is A Weapon. Neither View Is Balanced, But One Is Less Unwise." -Keeper Annals
 * "There Are Those To Whom Knowledge Is A Shield,

Miscellaneous Quotes

 * Security robots, upon deactivation:"I have seen... a malfunction. An error. An error. Fails to understand. Creation..."

 * Guard 1: And I'm telling you that the only stench heartier than your rotting burrick of a master, is the liquor on his fetid breath. If he comes near Lady Van Vernon again, we'll boil his knickers.
 * Guard 2: Oh ho! Mighty fine words coming from a knock-kneed, inbred pageboy such as yourself. Our good master Willy wouldn't be caught near that frumpy little trollop unless he were holding her back at the end of a halberd.
 * Guard 1: (gasp) How dare you defile the name of someone so good and virtuous as the Lady Van Vernon. Our Lady is a saint among mortal women. An angel so pure the heavens couldn't hold her.
 * Guard 2: (laughs loudly) Your Lady? An angel? You're lucky the Darkside Whorekeeps aren't bashing down her door for stealing their clientele. Why just last night, I saw her out back warming up the stable-boy.
 * Guard 1: Such slander will not be tolerated while we're on watch! You'd best run and rescue your helpless limp lord before he flounders in his own vomit, or wakes up naked in a hen coupe. Scurry off, or you'll acquire some unnecessary ventilation!
 * Guard 2: Is that a threat, you shriveled old maid? You gonna prick us with your sewing needles? On this side of the street we shoot like soldiers, so don't make promises your arrows can't keep.
 * Guard 1: (voice cracks) You've gone... you've gone too far this time, you camel-mannered, tunic-wearing mollycoddle!! An arrow in the throat ought to shut you up!!
 * Guard 2: Raahh! Have at thee!

 * Benny: Ha!  So what if I am, huh?  Anyways, I work better when I'm drunk.  It makes me fearless!  If I see a bad guy, I'll just point my sword at him.  And saaaaaay "HEY!  Bad guy!  You're not s'pposed to be here! Go home or I'll stick you with my sword...'til you go...'Ouch I'm dead!'  Ahahahah (hic) See?  Ain't no one gonna be messin with old Benny."
 * Mechanist Guard: I hearken unto they fearful heart: "thump, thump!"

Quotes from Garrett
"It's not much. But it's home." Garrett, on entering his house.

"A secret room... always my favourite room in a house" City Day 2/Seaside Manor

"Let me see if I've got this right. You want me to find Gamall's lair, learn what she wants your treasure for, and find and destroy this final glyph?  Anything else?" Day 8/Still Life with Blackjack

"What is locked - can be opened. What is hidden - can be found. What is yours - can be mine." Thief 3 Trailer

 * Garrett: If I never see another glyph again, it'll be too soon.

 * [Garrett grabs the wrist of a young girl trying to steal his money pouch]
 * Girl: Let go of me!
 * Garrett: That's not for you.
 * Girl: Please, sir, I'm hungry.
 * Garrett: It is not an easy thing to see a Keeper...
 * [a slight smile cracks across Garrett's face]
 * Garrett: ...especially one who does NOT wish to be seen.

 * Garrett: Giant rats. Great...

Miscellaneous quotes
'Tis both a tool for construction, and a weapon against thy foes." -The Hammer Book of Lessons
 * "The Hammer is the most blessed of all the Builder's works:

Thou canst never return unchanged from the forge." -Rite of Ordination to MasterForger
 * "A rod of iron, in the flame, is transfigured and is no more.

and forest dwellers be they." -From the Book of the Master Builder
 * "You shalt know thy enemies well, for they wield not the hammer,

And sin never sleeps..." -Excerpt from a Hammer Hymn
 * "Be ever diligent, For thy enemies are a multitude,

 * "If thou hast eyes to see the glory of the Builder, but do not, then pluck them out." -Opening Prayer, Ironwright Temple

Seek they to undo thy works and subvert thy thoughts." -The Sermon of St. Edgar
 * "Beware the minions of the Trickster, for they revel in chaos.

 * "Set thy bricks with the bones of heathens, and mix thy mortar with their blood." -Hammerite Book of Structure

 * "The Builder let me strike through. Builder in the work I do." -The Hammerite Guard Patrol

 * "Holding a key, you may infer the existence of a lock. However, do not make the mistake of assuming that yours is the only key." - Handbook of Scribes

 * "History is written by the observer. Propaganda is written by the victor." - Keeper Archives

 * "Ha! That'll learn ya, 'cept you're dead." - Warden Stout

 * "Anybody there? (Snickers) We're friendly... and don't know how to fight...." - Guard

 * "Hello? Anybody there? Don't be afraid. We're just a couple of friendly guys looking to (snicker) make friends...." - Thug

 * "Who's there? (Silence) I wish it's a beautiful lady, coming to tell me how handsome I am." - Servant

 * "I'll be home soon, drinking good dark ale, nibbling on a nice leg of mutton, forgetting about this place...." - Guard

 * "Oh...these godforsaken boots! Why can't I wear my own shoes to work? Huh? What difference could it possibly make?" - Guard

 * "Darn boots...stupid toe-pinchers...." - Guard

 * "Well, taffer. Now that you're dead...can I have those boots?" - Thug

 * "So tired...if it weren't for these taffin' boots, (yawns) I'd be asleep." - Guard
 * "Must have been a mix up in the uniforms...pants feel...too tight...boots are loose... I'm gonna have blisters for sure..." - Guard

 * "New boots. It's gonna take me a week to break-in the cursed things. And until then... I'll be walking like someone's grandmum." - City Watch

 * "You son of a dog!". - Guard

 * "You'll have to come down sometime, taffer!" - City Watch

 * "I will get you, eventually." - Guard

 * "I will have you hang for that, you taffer!" - Guard

 * "OK, run! If I were you, I would run, too." - Guard

 * "Ruby ring and pearls for my ears." - Sleeping Lady

 * "What's the matter? You are afraid of the big bad guard?" - Guard

 * "Look, I got all taffin' night to look for ya. You got that kind of time?" - Guard

 * "Too many shadows. Something could hide here easy." - Guard

 * "Hey, you look familiar." - Town's people

 * "What's all this? Is someone being clever?" - Guard

 * "What's that noise? Oh, boy, sounds like somebody needs a good beating!" - Guard

 * "I shall pound thy head when I find thee, craven!" - Hammerite Guard

"I am looking at it." - Guards
 * "You know... you should really have that looked at."

 * "Gone? Well I'd run too if I saw someone like me looking for... er, me..." - Guard

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Talk:Horatio Nelson

"Kiss me, Hardy." NOT ""Kismet, Hardy."
Kiss me Hardy, Or Kismet? - Mintguy@Wikipedia

"Kiss me, Hardy." - these are sometimes reported as his last words, but this was not the case, and in contemporary accounts he is reported to have made several more comments afterwards, before dying a short time later. ~ Kalki 22:37, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I just reverted a great deal of speculative and incorrect commentary on these last words. That he said, and meant, "Kiss me, Hardy" in his last hours, after being mortally wounded is extensively documented in contemporary accounts, including that of people actually present. That they were not his actual last words is also extensively documented, though not as clearly in many popular accounts. "Kismet Hardy" is a phrase that seems to have become popularly substituted as if they "certainly" had been his "actual" words by some, but thus far I have absolutely no indication that this tale has anything but speculative origins to it, or that it even existed prior to the internet. I have not read the accounts in some time, but I believe that Hardy was reported to have kissed Nelson on the forehead in response, and all this occurred hours before he actually ceased to talk. ~ Kalki 20:08, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The "Kismet Hardy" theory most definitely predates the Internet. As a kid growing up on the South coast of England in the 1960's, just a few miles from Nelson's ship, The Victory (a popular school-trip destination, so I have visited the ship numerous times, and stood on the spot that these words--whatever they were--were spoken), I remember being told both the Kismet and the Kiss me theories. In fact I believe it's most likely that the guides on the ship--Royal Navy personnel, as the ship is still part of the Royal Navy--spoke of both phrases. --Wikidenver (talk) 16:25, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

 * Actually rereading my comment on the page, which was made fresh after reading several early accounts, he kissed his cheek and then his forehead, though at least one account mentioned only the kiss on the forehead. ~ Kalki 20:38, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I also have replaced this from the Famous last words page:

 * Kismet Hardy / Kiss me, Hardy
 * Who: British Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson. Nelson is rumoured to have said "Kismet Hardy" or "Kiss me, Hardy" whilst he was dying. Kismet means Fate. However, the OED gives the earliest use in the English language of "kismet" as 1849.  Both versions are speculative and there's no record of anyone who was present at his death reporting either of them. These words were allegedly spoken to his Flag Captain, Thomas Masterman Hardy, who was alleged to have kissed his cheek and then his forehead.

And, because they are not entirely fiction, I also removed these from the Famous last words in fiction section of that article:
 * "Kiss me, Hardy!"
 * Who: Horatio Nelson, in Monty Python's famous deaths sketch.

Kalki 21:33, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I think that the words could well have been "Kismet,Hardy". Soldiers and sailors serving in foreign countries often pick up phrases from those lands. Why should Nelson not have learnt the term Kismet (fate) during his time in Egypt? He certainly could have used the term amongst his officers like Captain Hardy. The fact that it was not in the OED only attests that it was not general currency,in Britain,in 1805. But,as said,Nelson had been in Egypt and being there was a war on it would be most likely he would have thought of fate and been told of kismet, its translation. How many would not wonder about fate in such life and death circumstances? Kismet means fate,fate means kismet! At Trafalgar Nelson was near death, in saying "Kismet, Hardy" he would be acknowledging that fate. It just feels intuitively right. Plus this argument that he would have known the term from Egypt, and therefore could have used it, is stronger than saying that people only want it to be kismet because of a revulsion to men kissing. I felt no such revulsion to the "Kiss me" tale and I knew that years before I even heard of the kismet argument. That was in pre-web days during a 1970s revival of the musical of that name. Vince - 17 - 8 - 12

Corroborated perhaps by the sequence of events: 1 Nelson says, we are told: "Kiss me, Hardy". 2. Hardy kisses him. 3. Nelson asks:"Who is that?" As if Hardy's reaction was unexpected. The 'kismet' theory may be amusing, but not exactly far-fetched.122.57.152.168 02:22, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

It's rather simple to disprove the Kismet theory. The word was not attested in the English language for several decades after Lord Nelson's death. The notion that Lord Nelson would be using a foreign word that no one else would be recorded using for next four decades is absurd. 209.6.51.235 21:39, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

"I see no ships"
I'm surprised not to find this here, but I gather it's a misquote from the rather less pithy "I really do not see the signal" (e.g., ). I've also heard it as "I see no signal" (e.g. ).

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 * Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
 * Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Austerlitz. Quoted in Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, Naval Strategy: Compared and Contrasted with the Principles and Practice of Military Operations on Land. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. 1915, pg 289.

 * I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

 * Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

 * Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

 * Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

 * This is too warm work, Hardy, to last long.

 * It is nonsense, Mr. Burke, to suppose I can live. My sufferings are great but they will soon be over.

 * Kiss me, Hardy
 * Spoken to his Flag Captain, Thomas Masterman Hardy, who kissed his cheek and then his forehead.

 * Thank God, I have done my duty.
 * Statement among his final dying words.

 * Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.
 * After being wounded during the attack on Santa Cruz de Tenerife (July 24. 1797)

 * I had rather suffer death than alarm Mrs. Freemantle, by letting her see me in this state, when I can give her no tidings whatever of her husband.
 * After being wounded during the attack on Santa Cruz de Tenerife (July 24. 1797)

 * First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
 * Before the battle of the Nile (August 1, 1797)

 * I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
 * (1797)

 * The Neapolitan officers did not lose much honour, for God knows they had not much to lose - but they lost all they had.
 * After a French rout of the Neapolitan army (1798)

 * I am myself a Norfolk man.
 * On being welcomed on arrival in Great Yarmouth, in his home county

 * My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
 * Letter to his mistress, Lady Hamilton, 1800
 * Compare: "But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive." by William Shakespeare, in Henry V

 * It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands.
 * At the Battle of Copenhagen (2 April 1801)

 * If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.
 * Statement (August 1801)

 * If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.
 * Statement (March 1805)

 * Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
 * Letter to Frances Nisbet

 * Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight above all.
 * Before the battle of Trafalgar

 * When I am without orders and unexpected occurrences arrive I shall always act as I think the honour and glory of my King and Country demand. But in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

Quotations of others about Nelson

 * Let the country mourn their hero; I grieve for the loss of the most fascinating companion I ever conversed with— the greatest and most simple of men— one of the nicest and most innocent— interesting beyond all, on shore, in public and even in private life. Men are not always themselves and put on their behaviour with their clothes, but if you live with a man on board a ship for years; if you are continually with him in his cabin, your mind will soon find out how to appreciate him. I could for ever tell you the qualities of this beloved man. I have not shed a tear for years before the 21st of October and since, whenever alone, I am quite like a child.
 * Alexander Scott, Chaplain who attended to Nelson at his death.

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 * 3)  Redirect of implausible typo. However, redirects from common misspellings or misnomers are generally useful.
 * 1)  Redirect of implausible typo. However, redirects from common misspellings or misnomers are generally useful.
 * 1)  Redirect of implausible typo. However, redirects from common misspellings or misnomers are generally useful.

Categories

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production, an electronic musician being a musician who composes and/or performs such music. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology

Quotes

 * Somebody will ask those of us who compose with the aid of computers: 'So you make all these decisions for the computer or the electronic medium, but wouldn't you like to have a performer who makes certain other decisions?' Many composers don't mind collaborating with the performer with regards to decisions of tempo, or rhythm, or dynamics, or timbre, but ask them if they would allow the performer to make decisions with regard to pitch and the answer will be 'Pitches you don't change.'  Some of us feel the same way in regard to the other musical aspects that are traditionally considered secondary, but which we consider fundamental.  As for the future of electronic music, it seems quite obvious to me that its unique resources guarantee its use, because it has shifted the boundaries of music away from the limitations of the acoustical instrument, of the performer's coordinating capabilities, to the almost infinite limitations of the electronic instrument.  The new limitations are the human ones of perception.
 * Milton Babbitt, quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music.

 * Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.  Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives.  I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
 * Edgard Varese, quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music.

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User talk:Hyacinth

Hi Hyacinth — I appreciate the quotes you have contributed, but I notice you have been making wikilinks in the text of quotes. Personally I do not think this is a good idea, as it can complicate the cutting and pasting of quotes that people might wish to use in their own files. Unlike the Wikipedia itself, I do not think we should aim at such extensive inter-linking here, but perhaps an only an occasional "see also:" note after a quote, or at other points in the articles, or some interlinks within notes about the quotes could be appropriate. This is merely an expression of my own aesthetical and utilitarian sense on the matter. As you are probably aware their are not many hard and fast rules or even guidelines here yet, but I think links within the body text of quotations mars the appearance of things too much. Many of the quotes you have contributed are excellent. —Thanks, Kalki 19:34, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

It took me a while to notice this, as I don't stay signed into Wikiquote and so am often not signed in. I agree with you, and I can't remember having linked to wikipedia within a quote, so I have and will stop. Are you referring to my linking of article titles to wikipedia? Thanks-Hyacinth 22:56, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

 * Links to Wikipedia in the headers are fine — they are recommended. Links within explanatory notes are also okay… as such notes are intended to clarify. I make both sorts of links myself.  I merely think any links within quotations themselves, even to other pages in Wikiquote, tends to mar their appearance. It is nothing so significant that I'd like to see it forbidden, or anything… I merely think it should be avoided.  — Kalki 23:41, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

 * It seems we have a conflict then, since linking from within a quote is the easiest way for me, as I had been using them to compile articles around subject rather than source, but harder for you, since you must remove them to put them in another article the way you prefer. I think the linking is good and useful for creating pages, you think its ugly and interferes with creating pages.

Hyacinth 00:04, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

 * I don't believe that I have ever actually removed any links within quotes that anyone has created. I do merely think they are aesthetically displeasing and distracting within the body of a quote. As I have acknowledged, wikilinks are very useful and indeed necessary, I merely think the preferred method of providing them should be to create links within notes, "See also" links, and the various header notes. I won't object any further if you really do prefer this, and as I said, I don't believe I ever have actually removed any from your contributions. I am not really inclined to imposing any more standards than are necessary to prevent vandalism and such. Do as you will. — Kalki 01:14, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

 * After consideration I agree with you and have stopped adding links within quotes. Hyacinth 21:41, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Template:Fix
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Labiodental nasal
Hi Hyacinth. I've seen that you've contributed writing the article about the labiodental nasal in en.wikipedia, so maybe you an help me with this doubt of mine. I was wondering why in the Help:IPA pages for languages (such as Corsican or Sardinian) where ɱ is an allophone of m/n before f and v the symbol ɱ isn't used but replaced by a wrong symbol m, while in the same Help:IPA pages for the same languages where also ŋ is an allophone of n/m before k and g the symbol ŋ is used instead. Don't you think this is a wrong and useless distinguo? If it was for simplicity, then also ŋ should be transcribed as n (since in those languages this sound can't be found elsewhere). But this would make the transcription less accurate, then why doesn't ɱ have a place of its own in the list? It's weird to me such a different treatment... I thought you could enlighten me about this issue. Thank you if you will! Sioniasi (talk) 09:54, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

 * See w:User talk:Hyacinth and w:Help talk:IPA. Hyacinth (talk) 01:43, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

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