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John Lawson
"The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders." --
Source : John Lawson (1860). “The History of Carolina: Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of that Country, Together with the Present State Thereof and a Journal of a Thousand Miles Traveled Through Several Nations of Indians, Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, &c., &c”, p.17
John Lawson
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“There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.”
“Language is the dress of thought.”
“I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore.”
Source : William Melmoth (1805). “Fitzosborne's Letters on Several Subjects”, p.1
“The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a given substance is an invariable quantity-i.e., one independent of the circumstances accompanying the combustion-from which it is more specifically concluded that the chemical effect of the combustible materials undergoes no quantitative change even as a result of the vital process, or that the living organism, with all its mysteries and marvels, is not capable of generating heat out of nothing.”
“Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.”
Source : Christina Georgina Rossetti (1970). “The poetical works: With memoir and notes &c”
“What I wanted more than anything was a long career.”
Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. January 20, 2005.
“Iblis (satan) himself recognizes the Lordship of Allah, but wants the human being to forget it”
“Maruman does not loll.”
Source : Isobelle Carmody (2011). “The Keeping Place: Obernewtyn Chronicles: Book Four”, p.5, A&C Black