George Lillo famous quotes

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What shall we call this undetermin'd state, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans, That whence we came, and that to which we tend?
-- George Lillo

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When gratitude o'erflows the swelling heart, and breathes in free and uncorrupted praise for benefits received, propitious heaven takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense, and doubles all its blessings.
-- George Lillo

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There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.
-- George Lillo

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A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.
-- George Lillo

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The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.
-- George Lillo

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Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.
-- George Lillo

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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.
There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.
We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.
I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.
Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

George Lillo famous quotes

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