Leslie Stephen
Leslie Stephen
Sir Leslie Stephen KCBwas an English author, critic, historian, biographer, and mountaineer, and father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 November 1832
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This game was about as evenly played as you could get. These close games are the kinds that are fun to coach. We were fortunate to come out on top.
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We've been fortunate so far that we've been able to get runs early. When you have the defense we do and Brittany on the mound, that's a lot of confidence for our kids.
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She's throwing well. She's just playing with tremendous confidence. The team has made some great plays behind her. If we get her a couple of runs for a lead, as a coach, it's a great feeling.
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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
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God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation.
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I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.
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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
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The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head.
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Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.
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The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.
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Chance is a name for our ignorance.
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The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
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The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.
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A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.