Joseph Glanvill Quotes
The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.
Joseph Glanvill
Quotes to Explore
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If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...
Rudyard Kipling
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No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.
Ry Cooder
Buena Vista Social Club
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I think you can perform any poem. But what I believe is that the best examples of spoken word poetry I've ever seen, are spoken word poems that, when you see them, you're aware of the fact they need to be performed. That there's something about that poem that you would not be able to understand if you were just reading it on a piece of paper.
Sarah Kay
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Film is definitely a director's medium. They're responsible for the look and everything, and you're a part of that process as an actor, and you try to contribute to the story. But I think it might sound a little pretentious for me to say I think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as a creative person.
Owen Wilson
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Music imitates the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
Aristotle
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By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.
Humphry Davy
