"Shall we gather at the river, Where bright angel feet have trod; With its crystal tide for ever, Flowing by the throne of God?"

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Source : Robert Lowry, William Howard Doane, Ira David Sankey (1877). “Welcome Tidings: A New Collection of Sacred Songs for the Sunday School”, p.153

Robert Lowry

#Angel Quotes #Feet Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.”
“I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.”
“I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit, and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something.”
“The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.”
“He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.”
“I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy.”
“What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.”
“Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the affection and the confidence of our kinsmen across the seas; so that in every vicissitude of fortune the British Empire may present an unbroken front to all her foes, and may carry on even to distant ages the glorious traditions of the British flag.”

Source : Joseph Chamberlain (1897). “Foreign & Colonial Speeches”, London ; New York : Routledge

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