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Publications Quotes We were born women - useless for honest
purposes, Samuel Taylor Coleridge As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed. The
man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other
than for the desire of the man. E.M.Forster The
devil who rules this planet has contrived that those who are powerless
shall suffer. George Gordon, Lord Byron. All
tragedies are finished by a death. All comedies are ended by a
marriage. Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. The
body oppressed by excesses, bears down the mind, and depresses to the
earth any portion of the divine Spirit we had been endowed with. Where belief is painful, we are slow to believe. Love
yields to business. If you seek a way out of love, be penniless;
you'll be safe then. Christopher Marlowe It lies not in our pow’r to love or hate, J.S.Bach For
complication to be interesting, one must start with simplicity. T.E.Lawrence
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity:
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their
dream with open eyes, to make it possible. Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford Here we are subject
to error and misjudging one another. Ernest D Fridlander Let us
remember that to Matthew Maris the ways of business were not possible,
least of all in connection with his art. Such a thing as the
consideration, before embarking upon any piece of work, of possible
material gain that he himself might reap from it was, to his nature,
inadmissible; and bartering a work of art for money seemed to him no
less a thing than bargaining for his soul. Art, he would say, is
foolish - she works not for her own. All that his genius could express
he gave, while he awaited, as live he must, whatever might be
proffered in return - and who that truly gauges the tell-tale
disproportion between the values of these two shall speak of human
justice unperturbed. Shall I speak of human justice unperturbed? Shall I, shan't I, shall I, shan't I? Maybe I shall tomorrow. Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury He is of base mind that thinks money to serve for anything but for use. He that will be impatient of slander must procure himself a chair out of this world's circle. David Cecil The Cecils of Hatfield House ...James I, an awkward, ugly figure dressed in a shabby doublet heavily quilted to protect him from an assassin's dagger, with a straggly beard, a slobbering tongue too big for his mouth, who shambled about fiddling with his codpiece and, throughout the interview, was always leaning against something or someone to support a weight too heavy for his weak, knock-kneed legs. His talk was as unkingly as his looks: a garrulous stream in which out-of -the-way learning and long-winded theories mingled incongrously with homely endearments and jocular familiarities, all uttered in a broad Scottish accent. Macaulay
History of England The
Church of England was, in his
view, a passive victim, which he might, without danger, outrage
and torture at his pleasure; nor did he ever see his error till the
Universities were preparing to coin their plate for the purpose of
supplying the military chest of his enemies, and till a Bishop, long
renowned for loyalty, had thrown aside his cassock, girt on a sword,
and taken the command of a regiment of insurgents. James II, quoted by Macaulay History of England "I will make no concession," he often repeated; "my father made concessions, and he was beheaded." An American
cyclist was skirting the shore of a solitary Highland loch, and
noticed a boat in which was a man languidly examining the depths with
a water-telescope. Now and again he would pause and chat with a friend
who sat on the bank reading a newspaper; or he would lay down the
telescope and light his pipe. The American, who had dismounted, could
not restrain his curiosity, and at last asked the idler on the bank,
"What is your friend looking for? Oysters? "No," was
the matter-of -fact reply--"my brother-in-law." Adnax
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