Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. – William Davenant
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It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man. – Henry Mackenzie
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. – Joseph Addison
They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a directors imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground. – Toby Jones
