Charles II of England famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.
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I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.
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This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.
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You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.
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Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels.
-- Charles II of England
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.
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Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.
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A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
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Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
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In my search to find myself, I’d found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.
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I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.
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Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.
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Every moment is travel - if understood.
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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