"Although I never lack the presence and plain image of my own wretched infirmity, yet seeing sin so manifestly abounds in all estates, I am compelled to thunder out the threatenings of God against the obstinate rebels."

-- John Knox

#Rebel Quotes #Sin Quotes #Threatening Quotes

“You are so obtuse!" BrontÃ« says, exasperated. I am calm in my response. "Do you mean stupid, or angular? You need to be more specific with your insults.”
“Blood was the mortar that cemented the kingdom”
“If you have fairy blood, even in the tiniest degree, you must live close to Fairy Land, and eat a little fairy food, or else you will always be hungry.”
“Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.”
“Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy ...”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.95
“Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.”
“This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.”
“Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.”

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