Top 9 Robert Hall Quotes
#1. Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
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#2. In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
Robert Hall
#3. We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.
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#4. I believe that it was the highest privilege of my life to wear the uniform of the United States Marine Corps. I don't believe the country owes me anything for doing so, but that my serving was partial payment on what I owe our country - a debt that can be never fully paid, but with my life.
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#5. 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.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#8. In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
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#9. We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
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