William Cowper Quotes
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.
William Cowper
Quotes to Explore
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
Kate Christensen
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
Barbara Mandrell
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
Lafcadio Hearn
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
Zoe Kravitz
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
Ingrid Betancourt
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
Ted Sarandos
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
Campbell Scott
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
Natalie Gulbis
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
Ignatius of Antioch
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
Rachel Platten
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
Edgardo Osorio
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And everything seems to have gone terribly wrong that can.But one breath at a time is an acceptable plan,She tells herself.
Ani DiFranco
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When I was in high school. I was considered really weird and strange, and people kind of kept their distance.
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
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What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
Viggo Mortensen
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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
D. H. Lawrence
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My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director over at the gym where I grew up and learned about all those awesome things I told you about already. She was the one who taught me terms like "upstage" and "downstage," all those technical things about the art of what I do - how to breathe what I see, how to move. They were all her tactics, not anything learned or given to me through a theory, but rather by her natural abilities.
Erykah Badu
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The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.
William Cowper
