Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
If they’re in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners – they’re murderers, they’re terrorists, they’re insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we’re so concerned about the treatment of those individuals.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I’m just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they’ve used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
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