Author Adrienne Morris

The Writing Life at Middlemay Farm

Learn to admire rightly: the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely and worship meanly. –W. M. Thackeray.

Thomas Le Clear - Young America

Young America (ca. 1863), Thomas Le Clear

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2 responses to “Learn to admire rightly: the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely and worship meanly. –W. M. Thackeray.”

  1. Some very humble people also admire and honor great things. And some people considered great in some way are in fact mean spirited, selfish, greedy, and pompous. It’s up to us to follow what is truly worthy and to value what is noble.

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    • Yes, great people need not be “famous.”

      I wonder if Thackeray had a sense that people of his day had a shared set of values. Worthy and noble are two words not often used today (like virtue).

      I still think there are many worthy and noble people out there if we seek them but they are not what our modern western world seems to value at the moment.

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My aim is to keep you turning pages well past bedtime with historical family sagas. Complex characters are my thing. I want to draw you into the lives of people you will love, hate and cry over. My goal is for history to come alive for you whether it be in a Civil War field hospital, an experimental Utopian society or in the dark-paneled rooms of Gilded Age socialites. If you like Gone with the Wind, Cold Mountain and Age of Innocence you may enjoy The Tenafly Road Series.
When not writing novels, you can find me knee-deep in farm muck.
 

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