"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."

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Source : 'The Candidate' (1764) l. 57

Charles Churchill

#Envy Quotes #Resentment Quotes #Whim Quotes

“You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.”
“It's not like you can aim for a home run and hit a home run.”
“I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.”
“I want to love and be loved.... I don't want a world without love or grief or beauty. I'd rather die.”
“I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.”
“I like a lot of different kinds of music. I like strong projects, big music.”
“Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these inordinate, unseemly, deformed, false, shameful, disgraceful passions; that my confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. Alas! woe, woe! O me, how long?”

Source : Lancelot Andrewes (bp. of Winchester.) (1883). “The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes”
“My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is not yet ripe for you to be a hawk... so you may as well sit down for the moment and learn to be a human being.”

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