"I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion."

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Source : John Brown (1910). “The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia”

John Brown

#Thinking Quotes #Light Quotes #People Quotes

“I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?”

Source : "'I sang and did the vixen stuff'". Interview with Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. february 24, 2009.
“Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.”
“Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral complexity. . . . Safe from the Neighbors does what only the best novels can do; after reading it, we can never see the world, or ourselves, in quite the same way.”
“Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost his belief in the existence of God said: "The whole horrible structure, based not on the love of God, but on the fear of hell, tumbled down like a house of cards."”
“The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.”

Source : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.
“God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 106, 1895.
“Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness.”
“I didn't handle fame very well at first. I got a little resentful.”

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