"No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history."

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Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.4

Edwin Percy Whipple

#Song Quotes #Kings Quotes #Hatred Quotes

“Power is the great enemy of freedom”
“No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.”
“I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.”
“Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.”
“I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.”
“We get what we focus on consistently.”

Source : "Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ". Ensign magazine, May 2009.
“Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.”

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