"So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition."

-- William Wilberforce

#Mind Quotes #Wickedness Quotes #Determined Quotes

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
“We must not indulge our inclinations, as we do little children, till they grow weary of the thing they are unwilling to let go. We must not continue our sinful practices in hopes that the divine grace will one day overpower our spirits, and make us hate them for their own deformity.”

Source : Henry Scougal (1775). “The life of God in the soul of man. Or, The nature and excellency of the Christian religion. And An account of the beginnings and advances of a spiritual life. 2 letters [by H. Scougal. With a preface by G. Burnet].”, p.66
“What I've been doing in practice will carry over into the game.”
“The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.”
“Until I did my work and I did my utmost best, I feel like I don't have a right to feel excited.”

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“Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.”
“Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine.”
“The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom.”

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