Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
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As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.
Kadir Nelson
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In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'
D. A. Carson
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The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
Oliver Goldsmith
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Silence is a source of great strenght.
Lao Tzu
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I bear a charmed life, which must not yield
To one of woman born.
William Shakespeare
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I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
William Congreve
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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.
George Bernard Shaw
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I have three incredible nieces and a nephew who's going off to college. To hear them say they're proud of me left me in tears.
Tamron Hall
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As I continue to teach, I have more to offer my students, and as I continue to teach, I have more to learn from my students. I do know some writers who feel very drained when they leave the classroom, and for me this would be a sign that maybe it's time to take a break or refocus because I always leave the classroom even more excited than I was when I walked in.
Emily Barton
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Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of earth's unhonored things Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun; And the mind whirls and the heart sings, And a shout greets the daring one.
Robert Frost
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Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.
Zeena Schreck
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The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.
Barry S. Strauss
