"I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant in all: I know I'm one of Nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall."

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Source : Sir John Davies (1733). “A Poem on the Immortality of the Soul: By Sir John Davis. To which is Prefixed an Essay Upon the Same Subject”, p.14

Sir John Davies

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“After all that, you would think daughter would want to spend time with me, but she's busy. I get it.”
“It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my portrait of Churchill is an example of this.”
“Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.”
“I'm not putting myself up as the epitome of virtue. I certainly am living a non-traditional life. But it is also a loving life and a very supportive one. I think that both in this, and the previous relationship, I think that I've been doing the best I can.”
“Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.”
“It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.”

Source : "Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust". Book by Eve Bunting, www.theguardian.com. 1980.
“The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer”
“The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.”

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