Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
The sound of ‘gentle stillness’ after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
My focus is not on solving nature’s deeper mysteries. It is on using nature’s deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Television doesn’t want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
I didn’t have to audition. That’s common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think… let the character develop and grow inside me.
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.
Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
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