Quotes 6301 till 6320 of 25156.
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He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
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He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
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He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.
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He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination.
Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden -
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
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He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
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He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
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He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
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He is like a cat. And all cats are thieves.
Murder for Christmas (1939) -
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.
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