Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Quotes
There is no little vigour and force added to words, when they are delivered in a neat and fine way, and somewhat out of the ordinary road, common and dull language relishing more of the clown than the gentleman. But herein also affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself, than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.
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Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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I only go to yoga to drink wine, so I'm good. I just throw the calories right back in.
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If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.
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I played football. I wrestled. Those were team sports and I played for the school. When I was younger, I played kick the can and stuff like that. I loved that.
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Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
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Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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Je reculeÉbloui de me voir moi même tout vermeilEt d’avoir, moi, le coq, fait élever le soleil.
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At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have the same rules to play or live by as men do.
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In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.
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Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.
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I will pursue my passion of cooking every day until my hands fall off and I lose all sense of smell and taste.
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There is no little vigour and force added to words, when they are delivered in a neat and fine way, and somewhat out of the ordinary road, common and dull language relishing more of the clown than the gentleman. But herein also affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself, than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.
