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Live within the sense they quicken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/15/1925 | See Source »

...because he wishes to convey those emotions to other people . . . and he will change the emotions of other people. But emotions, unlike opinions, such as Mr. Sinclair's, are products of gradual evolution and are the common heritage of the times. The effect of art, is often too quicken the response of emotions already possessed not to change them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT PRICE ART, MR. SINCLAIR? | 3/23/1925 | See Source »

Which will quicken the heart in its beating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/25/1925 | See Source »

More broadly still, he is here to quicken the Zionist movement which suffered a relapse when it was believed that the Balfour promises would not be fulfilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somehow Colonel | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

Some Anglicans would welcome disestablishment. It might tend to quicken the spiritual life. They say that the Protestant Church in Ireland and the Anglican Church in Wales have not lost financially by disestablishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: England's Church | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

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