William Davenant (D'Avenant) Quotes
O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.
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Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.
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You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
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I know that my heart and my family are here in California, not in Washington, D.C.
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Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.
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Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning, We will come back to earth some fragrant night, And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white. We will come down at night to these resounding beaches And the long gentle thunder of the sea, Here for a single hour in the wide starlight We shall be happy, for the dead are free.
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Death renders all equal.
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O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.
