"The saddest birds a season find to sing,The roughest storm a calm may soon allay;Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall."

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Source : Saint Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the Rev. Robert Southwell”, p.47

Robert Southwell

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“Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus.”
“Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the people who really enjoy chess are the dubs and the duffers, experts who have resigned their ambitions, those who play only for pastime, and, of course, the great fraternity of the kibbitzers.”
“It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property.... But if the productive activity of the multitude can be stimulated by the hope of acquiring some property... , it will gradually come to pass that, with the difference between extreme wealth and extreme penury removed, one class will become the neighbor to the other.”
“With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.”
“Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment”
“Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom.”
“I use Spanish dancing as a way to exercise. I've done that for my whole life.”
“Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal”

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