"Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?"

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Source : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.159

Robert Pollok

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“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.”

Source : "A Mother’s Story: It Is Not What We Say to Black Boys and Men, It Is What We Do to Them" by Laura W. Murphy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.
“Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.”
“I love great animation.”
“I hope and pray that despite an unhealed past full of atrocities and deep divisions in the present, God can and will make "the distant near" and a "brother of the stranger" in America's future.”
“I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability...”
“Whoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and banished all ignorance, has a most certain way to heaven.”

Source : "Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence" edited by Janel Mueller, University Of Chicago Press, (pp. 128-129), 2011.
“And what happened was, it's the same thing an older, more successful writer of ficition might say to a student: write about what you know. And what I knew - of course I knew jazz, but I also knew country, blues and some rock and roll. And that came out.”
“Wealth and power donâ€™t go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.”

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