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Robert Montgomery has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it
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The spectacle of advertising creates images of false beauty so suave and so impossible to attain that you will hurt inside and…
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The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air.…
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If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But…
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Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?
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And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes…
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Oh! weep not that our beauty wears Beneath the wings of Time; That age o'erclouds the brow with cares That once was…
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A universal beauty clothes the world, And one heart seems to beat for all mankind!
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Where beats a heart within a human breast, There be Thou present, and Thy power adored! And oh! since all are doom'd…
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As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity,...
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Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind o’er thy…
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...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,…
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A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And…
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The earth is rocking, the skies are riven-- Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven.
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I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me…
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Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their…
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All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away…
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In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed…
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