"When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins."

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Source : William Cowper (1824). “Poems of William Cowper, Esq”, p.57

William Cowper

#Church Quotes #Leprosy Quotes #Sin Quotes

“If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.”
“By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.”
“Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.”
“Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before.”
“My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.”
“Sex is the most important sort of adult play. If you can't relax here you never will”

Source : Alex Comfort (1986). “The Joy of Sex”, Pocket
“I just find things that work and embellish them.”
“The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.”

Source : Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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