"I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals."

--

H. Rider Haggard

#Religious Quotes #Poor Quotes

“There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.”
“It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.”
“O amazement of things-even the least particle!”
“But, though French, she was also very brave...”
“A creative, thoughtful, and accomplished people such as the Jewish people should be known by what they have done and not by what has been done to them.”
“She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.”
“The greatest medicine is a true friend.”

Source : Sir William Temple, Jonathan Swift, Lady Martha Giffard (1740). “The life and character of Sir William Temple, written by a particular friend [his sister Lady Giffard] Observations upon the United provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs, the third part, from the peace concluded 1679 to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672, to the peace concluded 1679”, p.309
“Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and a wholly unfamiliar sense of pleasure called joy.”

You may also like:

Alexandre Dumas
Writer
Arthur Conan Doyle
Physician
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Writer
Joseph Conrad
Author
Jules Verne
Novelist
Lord Dunsany
Writer
Robert Louis Stevenson
Novelist
Rudyard Kipling
Writer
Solomon
King of Israel