Second Level: Explicating Quotes, Set 3
Continue interperting quotes. In this section we do not
offer specimen answers. Again, use this structure
to write, clarify, and explain the quotes in this activity:
Quote: “Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also
the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what
is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
Quote: “Even legal punishments lose all appearance of justice,
when too strictly inflicted on men compelled by the last extremity
of distress to incur them.” — Junius
Quote: “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the
probable reason why so few engage in it.” — Henry Ford
Quote: “Thought engenders thought. Place one idea upon paper,
another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a
page... Learn to think, and you will learn to write; the more you
think, the better you will express your ideas.” — G.A. Sala
Quote: “Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.”
— William Shakespeare
Quote: “All truly wise thoughts have been thought already
thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think
them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal
experience.” — Goethe
Quote: “The key to every man is his thought.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson