"That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course."

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Source : Samuel Rogers (1793). “The Pleasures of Memory”, p.118

Samuel Rogers

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“Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”
“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”

Source : Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.33, Cambridge University Press
“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.”

Source : Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.398, Best Books on
“Detailed analytical indexing is generally the hallmark of good back-of-the-book indexes.”
“If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and expecting that the effects of widespread causes, though very different in each individual, will produce an average result on the whole nation, from a study of which we may estimate the character and propensities of an imaginary being called the Mean Man.”
“Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.”

Source : Thomas Sankara (2007). “We are Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Press
“We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.”
“Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?”

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