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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 one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
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He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing, but a supply of toothpicks.
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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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He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.
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