"I'm a member of the weeper sex."

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Jane Ace

#Sex Quotes #Members Quotes

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
“My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.”
“Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!”
“Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.”
“Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live there...but what we really have to remind ourselves is that decision is the ultimate power.”
“Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.”
“May be refined, and join the angelic train.”

Source : Phillis Wheatley (2012). “The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir”, p.4, Courier Corporation
“The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.”

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