"Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree When a hundred years are gone!"

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Source : Henry Fothergill Chorley, “The Brave Old Oak”

Henry Chorley

#Pride Quotes #Years Quotes #Tree Quotes

“He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.”
“I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it.”
“Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.”
“We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.”

Source : The Observer Review, 1995.
“Some 95 percent of all sexual contact still occurs in permanent relationships. That's an impressive number.”
“An unguarded strength is a double weakness.”
“People get so stressed and nervous and mad.”
“Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes”, p.17

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