William Davenant Quote: 'Calamity is the perfect glass wherein ...' @FEELquotes

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

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There's only person in the world you can't see - yourself. But, God created - or whoever created us, we don't even have to argue that point - created us so perfect because we can actually see ourselves in other people.

Debbie Ford

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Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.

James Lafferty

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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

Blaise Pascal

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We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

M. Scott Peck

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I truly believe that we have the best health care system in the world. It's not perfect, but this business of turning it over to the federal government to try to make it perfect is quite honestly asinine.

Phil Gingrey

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For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

Josiah Royce

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I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

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Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Virgil

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You can't reinvent the wheel. I remember when we first started out at 'Late Night,' we were trying to hire directors, and this guy was like, 'I see you behind a glass desk.' I don't. And he's like, 'Yeah, the glass desk.' I go, 'I don't really see me as a glass desk guy.'

Jimmy Fallon

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I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.

Columbus Short

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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

Harry Chapin

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My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship.

Emma McLaughlin

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You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

Agnes Martin

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Rather than diminishing the idea of 'truly needing' a relationship - and trying to deny it, shame it, or talk ourselves out of it - why not just celebrate it? It's exactly what the world needs.

Tracy McMillan

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I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.

Katherine Jenkins

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I have a real problem with watching movies where I see this perfect woman who is married to the man in question, who has a perfect life, who has perfect hair, perfect clothes, and doesn't give you any of the kind of reality that you're used to.

Caroline Goodall

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The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water.

Teju Cole

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He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.

Philip Massinger

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