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Robert Hall
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Robert Hall

“A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.”

- Robert Hall

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Robert Hall

“Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.”

- Robert Hall

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Robert Hall

“In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.”

- Robert Hall

Source/Notes: Works (1844 edition)
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Robert Hall

“In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.”

- Robert Hall

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Robert Hall

“Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.”

- Robert Hall

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Robert Hall

“Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.”

- Robert Hall

Source/Notes: The entire works: With a brief memoir of his life, and a crit. estimate of his character and writings (1833 edition)
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Robert Hall

“Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.”

- Robert Hall

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Robert Hall

“We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.”

- Robert Hall

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Robert Hall

“We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.”

- Robert Hall

Source/Notes: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
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Robert Hall

“His imperial fancy has laid all Nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of art.”

- Robert Hall

Source/Notes: On Burke; Apology for the Freedom of the Press, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Robert Hall

“He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.”

- Robert Hall

Source/Notes: On Kippis; Gregory's Life of Hall, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Robert Hall

“What other book besides the Bible could be heard in public assemblies from year to year, with an attention that never tires, and an interest that never cloys?”

- Robert Hall

Source/Notes: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
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Robert Hall

“While the passion of some is to shine, of some to govern, and of others to accumulate, let one great passion alone influence our breasts, the passion which reason ratifies, which conscience approves, which Heaven inspires, — that of being and doing good.”

- Robert Hall

Source/Notes: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
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Robert Hall

“If ever Christianity appears in its power, it is when it erects its trophies upon the tomb; when it takes up its votaries where the world leaves them; and fills the breast with immortal hope in dying moments.”

- Robert Hall

Source/Notes: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
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