On the stage he was natural, ...

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, \'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
 Oliver Goldsmith

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
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Quotes from the same author

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
 Oliver Goldsmith
As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.
 Oliver Goldsmith
Silence is become his mother tongue.
 Oliver Goldsmith
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
 Oliver Goldsmith
Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.
 Oliver Goldsmith