"**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"

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Source : At the battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 ('torpedoes' were mines). Capt. A. T. Mahan 'Admiral Farragut' (1892) ch. 10

David Farragut

#War Quotes #Civil War Quotes #Speed Quotes

“It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.”
“From the state of the Uncarved Block comes the ability to enjoy the simple and the quiet, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work, odd as that may appear to others at times. As Piglet put it in Winnie-the-Pooh, "Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right."”
“Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world”
“Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.”
“We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out - and we have only just begun.”
“I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours but in anther tongue , I bring you black eyes and golden skin and curly hair , I bring you Islam and Luxor and Alexandria and Lutes and tambourines and date-palms and silk rugs and sunshine and incense and voluptuous ways”

Source : Ahdaf Soueif (1999). “In the Eye of the Sun”, p.512, A&C Black
“We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author”

Source : Frances Ridley Havergal (1874). “Under the Surface”, p.11
“Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.”

Source : Emanuel Swedenborg (1993). “The Heavenly City: A Spiritual Guidebook”, Chrysalis Books

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