William Edward Hartpole Lecky Quotes
Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
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That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.
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As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most - a respected, credible, morally strong America.
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I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.
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He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.
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I don't think I've made my favorite film yet. But I loved 'Bamboozled.' 'Bamboozled' to me is off the chain. It's definitely in the ranking. I loved 'Bamboozled.'
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Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely, And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frenssh of Parys was to hire unknowe.
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My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
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Chinese people like to do things with a low profile; they do not like to expose their wealth.
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The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
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I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.
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Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.
