"For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere."

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Source : Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.77

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Sincere Quotes #Pretension Quotes

“live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning. At other times the line is so wired that it lights up the soles of my feet, gradually my whole body, until I am my own beacon, and I see then the beauty of newly created worlds, a form that is not random. A new beginning.”
“Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.”
“I've always had a passion for rap, and I might not be the greatest rapper, but I'm better than half of them out there.”
“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.”
“Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.”
“When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, youâ€™re free.”
“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.”

Source : "A Mother’s Story: It Is Not What We Say to Black Boys and Men, It Is What We Do to Them" by Laura W. Murphy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.
“I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.”

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