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
hero childhood sorrow
In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.
dream fate flames
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.
hate people movement
A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.
people personality leader
No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.
whiskey throat procession
Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat.
trying mountain doe
Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.
childhood betrayed boyhood
In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.
spiritual hate fighting
We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.
forgive-me joy forgiving
Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.
heaven earth found
Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.
time plums spirit
You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.
sympathy order spirit
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.