"The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth."

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Source : Robert Montgomery (1854). “The Poetical Works of Robert Montgomery ...”, p.186

Robert Montgomery

#Challenges Quotes #Religion Quotes #Slumber Quotes

“A successful home is based on the love and helpfulness of children just as it is based on loving parents handling their responsibilities. ... Be eager to forgive when problems arise at home. Help with your younger brothers and sisters when needed. You are their hero.”
“I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with the mood of melancholy that is induced by witnessing at close quarters such intractable situations of conflict and joylessness.”
“Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.”
“Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.”
“We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.”
“I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.”
“To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.”

Source : Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.62, Arcade Publishing
“A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.”

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