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
draws men themselves
The world can only be free when men are content in themselves and each draws from his own fountain.
dominion dwell house intricate life perfection single wisdom work
We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell.
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By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.
listen myriad orator prove replica
It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.
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Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.
beauty drunk hearts
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.
spiritual unconquerable-will world
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.
twilight dark night
Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.
running men rivals
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
country stupid men
People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.
pain lying thinking
Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
laughter heart tired
We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.
law morality human-nature
There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.
blow men wind
A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.