"Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?"

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Source : Isaac Watts (1831). “The Psalms and Hymns of Dr. Watts”

Isaac Watts

#Struggle Quotes #Winning Quotes #Sea Quotes

“All the members of terrorist organizations, even those that portray themselves as Muslim organizations.....they are all Darwinists.”
“What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty...You're the state where the shot heard round the world in Lexington and Concord.”
“I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.”
“What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that way and live in that room. You're looking for the poetry in something, and I don't mean poetry in the fancy sense. Naturalism believes by just replicating a thing you give the truth, rather than earning the truth.”
“The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.”
“In the heart or every caregiver is a knowing that we are all connected. As I do for you, I do for me.”
“President Obama has brought this country back economically so far from where we were when he took office, and Hillary Clinton is going to take that baton and take us even further. And what she's doing is what we have done for generations, which is really build out an infrastructure of opportunity in America.”

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“The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading.”

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