Broodingly suggestive of Donne's intellectual figure as well as his witty sensuality, it is also a picture of great intrinsic beauty and the bewitching evocation of an age. The National Portrait Gallery is its natural home. The picture is cheap at the price, and if we don't buy it someone else will.


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That the whole free people of any nation ought to be exercised to arms, not only the example of our ...
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Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man fro...
ANDREW FLETCHER
Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for l...
ANDREW BROWN
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, ...
ANDREW CARNEGIE
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
ANDREW CARNEGIE
I will give you a few guarantees of my own, Mukthar. I guarantee that before the sun sets, even if y...
ANDREW ASHLING
Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket...
ANDREW CARNEGIE
Concentration is my motto -- first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
ANDREW CARNEGIE
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
ANDREW CARNEGIE
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an a...
ANDREW CARNEGIE
Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged.
ANDREW CREIGHTON
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as s...
ANDREW JACKSON
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
ANDREW YOUNG
And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time.
ANDREW MARVELL
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equ...
ANDREW JACKSON
It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
ANDREW YOUNG
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the...
ANDREW CARNEGIE
Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
ANDREW HELLER
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
ANDREW JACKSON
Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
ANDREW YOUNG
The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God
ANDREW WHITE
Dav­el­lon may be a vil­lage, but the Dav­el­lon House can be any­thing you make it. No­bil­...
ANDREW ASHLING
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
ANDREW JACKSON
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire his...
ANDREW ROSS
Two Paradises t'were in one, to live in Paradise alone.
ANDREW MARVELL
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti...
ANDREW JACKSON
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
ANDREW CARNEGIE
You can cover a great deal of country in books.
ANDREW LANG
Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would...
ANDREW LO
When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, b...
ANDREW SHUE
I don't think Albert Einstein could have devised an equation to guide the leader of the free wor...
ANDREW BREITBART
As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, ...
ANDREW WEIL
You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep...
ANDREW WEIL
Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and nat...
ANDREW YOUNG
'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotiona...
ANDREW DAVIES
Datelines are kind of an anachronism. It's a little bit of an affectation.
ANDREW ROSENTHAL
I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means th...
ANDREW WILES
Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are...
ANDREW O'HAGAN
As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.
ANDREW GARFIELD
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my her...
ANDREW VACHSS