"I do not say the mind gets informed by action, â€” bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties."

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Source : William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.308

William Mountford

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“It depends on each and every one of me.”

Source : "Beerbohm Tree" by Hesketh Pearson, (p. 192), 1956.
“All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly sinking into contempt. In every country in which a strong political life is manifested, the secularisation of politics is the consequence. Each stage of that movement has been initiated and effected by those who are most indifferent to dogmatic theology, and each has been opposed by those who are most occupied with theology.”
“All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.”
“We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas to the best advantage. Why, then, do we so often refuse to perform this service?”
“One can do something if one can see and understand it...”
“I'm not saying I don't ever improvise because I do that quite a lot, especially with other people, but generally I've got an idea in my head and then I'll pursue it 'til I get there.”
“We get along, we talk music.Lenny Kravitz took me to Harlem to see this little jazz show in the back of a church. It was just shitty fluorescent lights and a small stage piano, but this band tore it up.”
“I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!”

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