"After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised."

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Source : William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.150

William Lilly

#Years Quotes #Majesty Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.”
“There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to the Renaissance. It's not about flow and the presence of humanism and all those things.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“We need not fear the future or falter in hope or good cheer, because God is with us.”
“Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.”
“It's a slam-dunk case!”

Source : Quoted in Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack (2004). Tenet's response to President George W. Bush when the latter asked him, during a White House meeting, 21 Dec. 2002, about the evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
“Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.”
“I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.”

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