"I did not pray Him to lay bare The mystery to me, Enough the rose was Heaven to smell, And His own face to see."

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Source : Ralph Hodgson (1961). “Collected Poems”, London, Macmillan

Ralph Hodgson

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“Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.”
“I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.”
“Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.”
“I look at Canada like a second home.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.”
“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body.”
“The Gadianton Robbers from the Book of Mormon are loose among us. The King-men, and women, are running our government. And, worst of all, we are blindly electing them, or appointing them so they can continue to destroy the things we cherish most.”
“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.”

Source : John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.101, Vintage

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