"Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work."

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Source : Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.94

Joshua Reynolds

#Mean Quotes #Language Quotes #Conviction Quotes

“Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People are getting tired of being constantly on edge. Maybe that means they do let down their guard or that they're complacent. What does it take to shake that? A 5% correction? A 10% one? Those kinds of declines are unfortunately something you put up with.”

Source : Source: uk.businessinsider.com
“There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.”
“You should never risk your integrity or your soul for any amount of money.”
“Once one has realized, following the great English literary visionaries William Shakespeare and Thomas Nashe, that sexual puritanism, political disciplinarianism, and abuse of the poor are the result of the refusal of true Christianity ... one is led to articulate a more incarnate, more participatory, more aesthetic, more erotic, more socialized, even a more 'Platonic' Christianity.”
“Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.”
“Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.”

Source : Garet Garrett (1965). “The People's Pottage”
“No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.”

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