"The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion."

-- Lytton Strachey

#War Quotes #Brilliant Quotes #Outbreaks Quotes

“Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.”

Source : Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.72, Profile Books
“To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question.”
“I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.”
“The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.”
“If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.”

Source : Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”
“Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.”
“I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.”
“The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all.”

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