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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents quite a challenge to the man who can take delight in being in a very difficult, disdained medium.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude
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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.
