"Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth."

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Source : Susanna Moodie (1853). “Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush”, p.76, London : R. Bentley

Susanna Moodie

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“Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.”
“After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.”
“Our journey of discipleship is not a dash around the track, nor is it fully comparable to a lengthy marathon. In truth, it is a lifelong migration toward a more celestial world.”
“I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back through our history, an awful lot of what we've fought over, struggled for, is the right of people to vote. That's what the civil-rights movement was, at its bottom, about. At the fundamental level, democracy means a government in which the people vote.”
“That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.”

Source : "Fictional character: Carlotta Vance". "Dinner at Eight", www.imdb.com. 1933.
“I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy.”
“I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.”
“The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.”

Source : Lydia Howard Sigourney (1838). “Letters to Young Ladies”, p.75

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