Alison Weir famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none
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If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by
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I cannot go with you all the way on your journey, but I would go as far as I might
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In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.
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Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.
-- Alison Weir
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Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end.
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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read — I like to buy.
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Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.
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Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
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It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse.
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Im always happy when Im left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.
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I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.
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