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The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
Peter Ackroyd
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Biographer
Character
Fatalism
Greedy
Melancholy
News
Past
Mixture
National Character
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There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
Plutarch
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Biographer
Power
Character
Passion
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Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.
Plutarch
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Biographer
Men
Husband
Wife
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Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.
Plutarch
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Biographer
Men
Doe
Injustice
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By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension .
Eugen Herrigel
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Biographer
Leaving
Letting Go
Tension
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Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
Matthew Simpson
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Biographer
Education
Equal
Intellect
Serving
States
Successful
Washington
Napoleon
Superior
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Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.
Oscar Romero
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Biographer
Faith
Coffee
Inspiration
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If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.
Peter Ackroyd
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Biographer
Example
Fraud
My Time
Thinking
Wasting My Time
For Example
Only One Thing
Wasting
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.
Peter Ackroyd
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Biographer
Class
Effort
Ordinary
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Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.
Plutarch
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Biographer
Misery
Shame
Wickedness
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We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow.
Iris Origo
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Biographer
Leadership
Women
Brutality
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[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.
Marva Collins
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Biographer
Kids
Firsts
Rooms
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.
Peter Ackroyd
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Biographer
Cambridge
Ordinary
Accent
Cockney
Efforts
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Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.
Plutarch
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Biographer
Gold
Plato
Rivers
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The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.
A. Scott Berg
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Biographer
Editors
Financial
Successful
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A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise.
Lord David Cecil
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Biographer
Appearance
Contemplative Life
Exercise
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My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so.
Nigel Hamilton
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Biographer
Afford
Enough Money
Sons
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For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.
Plutarch
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Biographer
Men
Heaven
Roots
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The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.
Plutarch
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Biographer
Evil
Firsts
Talking
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Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses."
Plutarch
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Biographer
Athenians
Rage
Said
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The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure.
Eugen Herrigel
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Biographer
Failure
Letting Go
Waiting
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Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.
Eugen Herrigel
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Biographer
Assuming
Danger
Lying
Mastery
Strain
Ahead
Increasing
Lies
Pupil
Scarcely
Survive
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I was an 18-year-old kid, and I was in the heart of things in Washington. My interest in American politics and, particularly, the Kennedys, began then.
Nigel Hamilton
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Biographer
American Politics
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Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
Plutarch
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Biographer
Men
Bravery
Differences
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[The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other end comes cleaner water.
Kate Orff
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Biographer
Ocean
Beautiful
Inspiration
Motivation
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That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.
Oscar Romero
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Biographer
Blood
Pain
Self
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As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.
Plutarch
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Biographer
Men
Awkward
Thyme
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Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.
Plutarch
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Biographer
Animal
Flesh
Philosophical
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What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel
Plutarch
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Biographer
Men
Elephants
Solemnity
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I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which yield fruit but once, and then die.
Edward John Trelawny
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Biographer
Love And Friendship
Tree
Yield
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I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.
Marva Collins
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Biographer
Learning
Inability
Teaching
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However strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it. Glory be to God.
Sarada Devi
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Biographer
Beautiful
People
Strong
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The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.
William Mackergo Taylor
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Biographer
Empires
Ruins
Track
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It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
John George Nicolay
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Biographer
Wisdom
Blinded
Folly
Gifted
Party
Political
Providence
Assumed
Axiom
Political Party
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It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincolns single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.
John George Nicolay
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Biographer
House
Reputation
Term
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Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.
Matthew Simpson
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Biographer
Adam
Consciousness
Human Nature
Offended
Unwilling
Hid
Presence
Whom
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As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes all Salvadorans, even those who are going to kill me.
Oscar Romero
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Biographer
Divine
Giving
Pastor
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A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."
Plutarch
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Biographer
Believe
Long
Sparta
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If you do a good act, it cancels the effects of your evil deeds. If one prays, takes the Name of God and thinks of Him, the effects of evil are cancelled.
Sarada Devi
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Biographer
Evil
Names
Thinking
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It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.
John George Nicolay
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Biographer
House Of Representatives
Representatives
Reputation
Term
Added
Washington
Practically
Lincoln
Therefore
Wondered
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There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.
Peter Ackroyd
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Biographer
Action
Consciousness
Spirit
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In daring to re-tell the stories of the last twelve American presidents, both public and private, I knew I would incur some outrage with 'American Caesars.'
Nigel Hamilton
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Biographer
Daring
Outrage
Twelve
Presidents
Private
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Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.
Oscar Romero
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Biographer
Bears
Church
Forget
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Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.
Plutarch
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Biographer
Men
Able
Land
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Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.
Plutarch
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Biographer
Cities
Gold
May
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If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.
Bodhidharma
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Biographer
Learning
Mind
Reality
Study
Use
Understand
Both
Without
Either
Using
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He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.
Eugen Herrigel
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Biographer
Capable
Effort
Following
Grows
Inspiration
Meticulous
Observation
Daily
Letting
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The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.
Plutarch
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Biographer
Gains
May
Strange
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He who has really prayed to the Master, even once, has nothing to fear. By, praying to him constantly one gets ecstatic love (Prema Bhakti) through his grace.
Sarada Devi
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Biographer
Ecstatic Love
Grace
Praying
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Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.
Matthew Simpson
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Biographer
Men
Bravery
Country
Brave Men
Washington
Dared
Elder
Expose
Napoleon
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