"And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard."

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Source : Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.245

Tobias Smollett

#Heart Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Everyone needs someone to tell them not to wear so much Prada.”

Source : "Square Cofounder: Jack Dorsey Is Like Hello Kitty". Interview with Seth Fiegerman, mashable.com. January 26, 2014.
“Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.”
“You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems.”
“The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.”
“I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.”

Source : "How to Win Friends and Influence People". Book by Dale Carnegie, p. 26, 1936.
“I want to show how strong I am from my roots.”
“In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his Son for an offence he has not even committed.' Though the sheer bluntness of this imagery (not original to me of course) might shock some, in truth, it is only a stark 'unmasking' of the violent, pre-Christian thinking behind such a theology.”
“The idea that God works in mysterious ways is rubbish. Thereâ€™s nothing mysterious about his ways. Theyâ€™re premeditated and slightly conniving, and they place you in an impossible situation.”

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