William Russell
William Russell
Twentieth century actor, director, and screenwriter who appeared in over 200 silent films, including Pride and the Man, and Girls Gone Wild.
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth12 April 1884
endure human ideal landlord life relation relations social spirit sympathy
The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
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The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.
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We have control over the work of our hands, but little over the working of the soul. But yet we must yield to it, for without it we have nothing.
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Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.
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We realise that natural aptitudes are not interchangeable, and each person must, of biological or spiritual necessity, practise the art for which he is fitted.
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Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
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You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.
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In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.
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Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.
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Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat.
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Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.
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After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality.... The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.
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A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.
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We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire; For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire, As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn.