Famous quotes containing the word capacity:
“For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)
“There is also something excellent in every audience,the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.”
—William Hazlitt (17781830)
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