Isaac Watts Quotes
Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
Isaac Watts
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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
Garrison Keillor
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'…as the cinema shows us, they are much more accessible and, for that matter, much more wanton than our own women'
Anthony Burgess
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Such is the aspect of this shore;'T is Greece, but living Greece no more!So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,We start, for soul is wanting there.
Lord Byron
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The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.
Charli XCX
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Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.
Alan Huffman
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When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.
Paul Theroux
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I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.
Lorraine Toussaint
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I hadn't made that movie before and when I ever met the real Joy Mangano, which happened because De Niro insisted we meet her and her father, that's what she felt like to us. She impressed us with her quiet, serene authority with herself.
David O. Russell
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It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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You belong with me, Scarlett, haven't you figured that out? And the world is where we belong, all of it. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only half alive. We can go anywhere, and as long as we're together, it will belong to us. But, my pet, we'll never belong to it. That's for other people, not for us.
Alexandra Ripley
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In order for romance to deepen, you must touch the heart and mind of your wife before you touch her body.
C. J. Mahaney
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Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
Isaac Watts