Charlotte Turner Smith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
-- Charlotte Turner Smith

#Doe #Conquest #Compact
In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.
-- Charlotte Turner Smith

#Mind #Tudors #Lines
...May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning chime, Seem in reproving notes to tell, Of hours mispent, and murder'd time....
-- Charlotte Turner Smith

#Sweet #Time #Wings
... Silene, who declines The garish noontide's blazing light; But when the evening crescent shines, Gives all her sweetness to the night....
-- Charlotte Turner Smith

#Flower #Night #Light

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?
Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self.
You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]
The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.

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