Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.


William Makepeace Thackeray

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Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand
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It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
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'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
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I would rather make my name than inherit it.
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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
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When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
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An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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WILLIAM GIBSON
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpiec...
WILLIAM SAFIRE
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES
Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS
I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS
It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS
Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS
I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS
We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS
To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS
I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS
No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS
Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY
God himself took this human flesh upon him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY
But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY