Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
Thomas Hardy
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SEAMUS HEANEY Who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.
THOMAS MIDDLETON He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
JOHN MILTON He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king
JOHN MILTON He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
JOHN MILTON He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more
than a king.
JOHN MILTON People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy endi...
JULIA L. ROBERTS I sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th ...
SUZANNE COLLINS Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Her suspense was terrible.
THOMAS HARDY Fancies find room in the strongest minds. Here, in a churchyard old as civilization, in the worst of...
THOMAS HARDY The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty w...
INDIAN PROVERB The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty wi...
PROVERB The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty wi...
INDIAN PROVERB Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.
LUDOVICO ARIOSTO What's interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there's a straight m...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST Everything that seemingly happens externally is occurring in order to trigger something within us, t...
ANITA MOORJANI The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is th...
DEAN ACHESON King Size is the safest and most reliable girth enhancing health care product.Apart from these, ther...
TRESNAN BROWN It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
OVID It is a kingly act to help the fallen.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for tho...
EDWIN MULLINS The plants are hardy and acclimated to this area.
ED COLLINS The social and community service aspect is what keeps us all active. Some of us are still volunteer ...
ARLENE TOLETTE If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard ...
THOMAS HARDY Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.
THOMAS HARDY It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
CARROLL O'CONNOR Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
EVAN ESAR But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not...
GEORGE ELIOT But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and no...
GEORGE ELIOT The devil is the fear you hold within The Luciferian aspect of your existence Your chains, the darkn...
PATRICIA CORI You really see dignity within people who are living through the most horrific of times.
CARL MYDANS Most Americans don't know a lot about Thomas Paine, but they carry Thomas Paine with them. Thomas Pa...
HARVEY KAYE It always seems that those who are most successful in fulfilling their hopes and dreams are the same...
SD WARD The bitterest of ironies is that the people who make us feel the most accepted, secure, and whole ar...
GUME LAUREL III God bless the King, I mean the Faith's Defender; / God bless - no harm in blessing - the Pretender; ...
JOHN BYROM You really see dignity within people who are living
through the most horrific of times.
CARL MYDANS We want to be accurate. We want to know who the descendants of Thomas Jefferson are. And, if Sally H...
ROBERT GILLESPIE Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
CARLOS GHOSN This is going to be the most important, most controversial Supreme Court confirmation battle since R...
RALPH NEAS The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
TACITUS Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret a...
GEORGES BATAILLE Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret a...
GEORGE BATAILLE Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
WELSH PROVERB Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
PROVERB Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
WELSH PROVERB Everyone in my story has it's own character, GreenHollyWood cheeky, hypocritical and near to mad guy...
DEYTH BANGER He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) God bless the King--I mean the faith's defender;
God bless (no harm in blessing) the pretender;
...
JOHN BYROM Gray wolves are very hardy, very tough and can withstand a lot.
JOE FONTAINE Those who left us in winter are still within reach, they are the sizzle of summer and the floret of ...
YAMIN RASHEED And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, an...
THOMAS HARDY The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a deli...
THOMAS HARDY Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
BLAISE PASCAL We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON sacred knowledge of the cosmos seems to be hidden within our souls and is shown within our artwork a...
NIKKI SHIVA The hatred of those who are near to us is the most violent
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to sh...
WILLIAM GODWIN Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant cou...
SRI CHINMOY Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas...
THOMAS EDISON It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Mums are pretty hardy. They're nice, and look how healthy they are. Yellow is pretty easily seen fro...
HARRY THOMPSON Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgement...
JOHN RAWLS The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manl...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Let us find someone who will never break our heart, who will always be there for us, who will make u...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON He who slays a king and He who dies for him are alike idolaters
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A story with a single ending seems to us a bare and diminished thing, like a tree with a single bran...
STEVEN MILLHAUSER And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN To me, that aspect of life that most touches the everyday and celebrations is food.
GIL MARKS We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a di...
DAVID BELLE The most important aspect of tomorrow's meeting is to get everybody on board and to understand the o...
KATHERINE STYPONIAS It seems often that it is not the most-talented or most good-looking but the most self-obsessed pers...
ANUJ SOMANY Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival be...
STANLEY HAUERWAS Quite naturally, the men who led in stirring up the revolt against Great Britain and in keeping the ...
CHARLES A. BEARD Who should we be trying to make the most proud? Our family? Our friends? Our teachers or bosses? Wha...
JAMES D. MAXON There are some people who are Burger King people, and there are some people who are McDonald's p...
ANDERSON COOPER Therefore I would ask that any member of the public who has got any information that would assist us...
DAVID COOK It hearkens back to the homecoming king, as to who can collect the most coins.
BLEASE GRAHAM To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly.
[Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR I plan on having a double major and so it's going to allow me to come in with more credits than some...
DAVID POTTS Most people who take our exercise classes are college-age women. Pole dancing just seems like it pro...
TRACY ADAMS Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substi...
THOMAS HARDY The curious double strands in Farfrae's thread of life - the commercial and the romantic - were very...
THOMAS HARDY Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now a...
THOMAS HARDY There is a temptation to take advantage. Just like any other aspect of society, there are the good (...
LAURENCE GODFREY Thomas Tuchel is a coach who can work in the long-term.
OTTMAR HITZFELD Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands ...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands ...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD It seems that most of the people who have them are very enthusiastic about them. It's kind of a dedi...
DAVE TUTTLE The most challenging aspect is the flatness. We need to create positive drainage.
BAYARD DOMINICK We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; a...
JAMES BALDWIN Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's...
MAGGIE GALLAGHER There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.
ALICE CARY Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.
[Lat., Che quant' era piu ornata, era piu brutta.]
LUDOVICO ARIOSTO They are both solid runners. I don't know if Porter will play against us or not, but Thomas is a goo...
CHRIS PARDUE Slowly more and more people are realizing that this is the way to go. Within five years most people ...
ANTHONY WEI We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is...
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wante...
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THOMAS HARDY The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views up...
THOMAS HARDY My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial inte...
THOMAS HARDY you dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom--hardly flesh at all; so that when I put my arms round you I al...
THOMAS HARDY Had other aims than my delight.
THOMAS HARDY Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
THOMAS HARDY Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line -- less dir...
THOMAS HARDY Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements...
THOMAS HARDY On a Fine Morning”
in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)
WHENCE comes Solac...
THOMAS HARDY The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of...
THOMAS HARDY Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or ...
THOMAS HARDY She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the...
THOMAS HARDY The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to thi...
THOMAS HARDY My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
THOMAS HARDY He had just reached the time of life at which 'young' is ceasing to be the prefix of 'man' in speaki...
THOMAS HARDY But no one came. Because no one ever does.
THOMAS HARDY My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
THOMAS HARDY The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the cou...
THOMAS HARDY And yet to every bad there is a worse.
THOMAS HARDY That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
THOMAS HARDY Love, though added emotion, is substracted capacity
THOMAS HARDY Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-relia...
THOMAS HARDY The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle ...
THOMAS HARDY