This version is more realistic, has more depth, and Moses is presented as a more complex figure. Heston was a big Hollywood star, and that got in the way.


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WALTER RALEIGH, SR.
If the heart be right, it matters not which way the head lies
WALTER RALEIGH, SR.
Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thin...
WALTER RALEIGH, SR.
In examinations, those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
WALTER RALEIGH, SR.
Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning; never sick, never old, never dead from itself never...
WALTER RALEIGH, SR.
Broadway is a place where people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't need to im...
HENRY WOTTON, SR.
Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all
HENRY WOTTON, SR.
This man is free from servile bonds Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of ...
HENRY WOTTON, SR.
Love lodged in a woman's breast, Is but a guest
HENRY WOTTON, SR.
Where strained, sardonic smiles are glozing still, And grief is forced to laugh against her will.
HENRY WOTTON, SR.
He first deceased, She for a little, tried; To live without him, Liked it not, and died
HENRY WOTTON, SR.
Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries
HENRY WOTTON, SR.
An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without ...
HENRY WOTTON, SR.
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
HENRY WOTTON, SR.
All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be t...
HUGH WALPOLE, SR.
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
HUGH WALPOLE, SR.
Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world
HUGH WALPOLE, SR.
'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.
HUGH WALPOLE, SR.
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with wh...
HUGH WALPOLE, SR.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive coun...
FRANCIS BACON SR.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
FRANCIS BACON SR.
Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues.
WILLIAM TEMPLE SR.
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
JAMES DEWAR SR.
Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and ...
FRANCIS BACON SR.
It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propo...
FRANCIS BACON SR.
In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of th...
FRANCIS BACON SR.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great ent...
FRANCIS BACON SR.
Come home to men's business and bosoms.
FRANCIS BACON SR.
Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration ...
FRANCIS BACON SR.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
FRANCIS BACON SR.
The Trinitarian believes a virgin to be the mother of a son who is her maker.
FRANCIS BACON SR.
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which...
FRANCIS BACON SR.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
FRANCIS BACON SR.
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and f...
FRANCIS BACON SR.
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with...
FRANCIS BACON SR.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
FRANCIS BACON SR.
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
FRANCIS BACON SR.
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which ...
FRANCIS BACON SR.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON SR.