Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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My work is done; I have nothing left to do but to go to my Father.
-- Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon -
Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost his belief in the existence of God said: "The whole horrible structure, based not on the love of God, but on the fear of hell, tumbled down like a house of cards."
-- Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon -
I am often tired of myself, and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality, and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from a journey quite the same self that I took.
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Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself; you are reconciled to being what you are, and you do not much mind what people think of you.
-- Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
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Spiritual master is representative of God. Similarly, king is also representative of God. The father is also representative of God. These are the statements of the sastras. Because they will guide. The king will guide. The spiritual master will guide. The father will guide. What is that guidance? That guidance is how one can become Krishna Conscious by education, by culture.
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I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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I can hear the music all around me.
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