"Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit."

-- Livy

#Men Quotes #Views Quotes #Benefits Quotes

“If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.”
“People who stop learning become the owners of the past. People who still continue to study will be the future owners.”
“From the steady opposition which faithful Friends in early times made to wrong things then approved, they were hated and persecuted by men living in the spirit of this world, and suffering with firmness, they were made a blessing to the Church, and the work prospered.”
“Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.”

Source : Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...”, p.48
“As a child I had terrible asthma.”
“Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.”
“I was born to poor because of honest parents.”
“Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.”

Source : John Dee, Gerald Suster (2003). “John Dee: Essential Readings”, p.36, North Atlantic Books

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