"The deepest rivers make least din."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 707-10, Aurora (1604), Song, 1922.

William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

“The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.”
“The nakedness of woman is the work of God.”
“I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.”
“Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!”
“Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity.”
“The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.”

Source : "A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great" by J. B. Bury, 2nd edition, (p. 683), 1913.
“It's important to understand that an atheist is someone who believes the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything. Some fundamental atheists will deny this by trying to redefine 'nothing' as being 'something,' because such a thought makes them look like a fool, which is precisely what the Bible says that they are”
“Let take a cat, and foster her with milk And tender flesh, and make her couch of silk, And let her see a mouse go by the wall, Anon she leaveth milk and flesh, and all, And every dainty that is in that house, Such appetite hath she to eat the mouse. Lo, here hath kind her domination, And appetite banishes discretion.”

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