Robert Montgomery Quotes

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• My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it
• The spectacle of advertising creates images of false beauty so suave and so impossible to attain that you will hurt inside and never even know…
• The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air. All the names…
• If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe…
• Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?
• And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in…
• Oh! weep not that our beauty wears Beneath the wings of Time; That age o'erclouds the brow with cares That once was raised sublime... But…
• A universal beauty clothes the world, And one heart seems to beat for all mankind!
• Where beats a heart within a human breast, There be Thou present, and Thy power adored! And oh! since all are doom'd one common race…
• As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity,...
• Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind oÂ’er thy sickly brow, when…
• ...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll, Or thunder sound,—the…
• Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear, And that lone…
• ...How sublime Upon a time-blanchÂ’d cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the scene around!—Survey The…
• Oh! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind: When prayer, the purest incense of a soul,…
• Are there not hours of an immortal birth,— Bright visitations from a purer sphere, That cannot live in language? Is there not A mood of…
• How oft,—be witness, Guardian of our days!... The sky besprinkled o'er with rainbow hues, As if angelic wings had wanton'd there;...
• O for a summer noon, when light and breeze Sport on the grass, like ripples o’er a lake Alive with freshness! when the full round…
• And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull’d, or by the storm-blasts driv’n, Thy majesty…
• A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And felt Omnipotence around…

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