Lafcadio Hearn Quotes
The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.
Lafcadio Hearn
Quotes to Explore
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
Fergus Henderson
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney
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Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
Saint Ignatius
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
Adam DeVine
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
Patrice Leconte
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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This mountain, I thought, was like education: The higher you climbed, the farther you could see.
Christiaan Barnard
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Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
Napoleon Hill
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Never mind... Don't cry... I will catch him again... Stepping to the front of the stage and addressing the audience. If any of you should find him, would you be so very kind as to give him back to us?... We need him for our happiness, later on...
Maurice Maeterlinck
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
Ira Glass
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The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.
Lafcadio Hearn