"Where billows never break, nor tempests roar."

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Source : Sir Samuel Garth (1730). “The Dispensary. A Poem ... The Twelfth Edition. With Several Descriptions and Episodes Never Before Printed. [By Sir Samuel Garth.]”, p.24

Samuel Garth

#Tempest Quotes #Break Quotes

“A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.”
“I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.”

Source : "This time it's serious" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2007.
“I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“One third of all of our cancers are from tobacco. It's one of the big killers in America and more than half of our kids still have environmental tobacco smoke exposure when environmental tobacco smoke is known to be associated with sudden infant death syndrome, with ear infections, respiratory infections and the rest. If we had to pick something to really go after, that would be one that I would really argue is an extraordinarily high priority and something people can actually do something about.”
“What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances”
“For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although the mandate of the Bank of Canada was to maintain a delicate balance between encouraging growth and fighting inflation, the Bank opted to focus exclusively on fighting inflation. In doing so it came down heavily in favour of those with financial assets to protect, and against those whose primary need was employment.”
“Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one ever climbed spiritual heights without it. No one ever lived without it.”
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?”

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