"The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who are invested with public authority."

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Source : Francis Atterbury (1774). “Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions”, p.61

Francis Atterbury

#Christian Quotes #Country Quotes #Practice Quotes

“It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.”
“In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.”
“I'd like to cause a little riot in skating.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice.”
“Somewhere between fear and sex passion is.”
“Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.”
“The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.”
“It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.”

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