In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Quote by Francis Thompson
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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
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Francis Thompson Quotes
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- That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
- When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'
- People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
- There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.
- In order to show your maturity, You must not bare your body. You must bare your soul and mind.
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
- God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
- All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.
- Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars and sun.
- A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.