"Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate."

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Source : 'To Richard Fanshaw' (1648)

John Denham

#Writing Quotes #Fate Quotes #Pride Quotes

“The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?”

Source : Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.11
“Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.”
“Our nation must engage with the rest of the world. But to be successful, we must listen. Our interaction with the world must be a conversation, not a monologue... these exchanges are a strategic pillar of our nation's public diplomacy.”
“Iâ€™m tired, canâ€™t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”
“One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.”

Source : Giorgio Agamben (2008). “State of Exception”, p.64, University of Chicago Press
“The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.”

Source : Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”
“If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.”
“There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.”

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