"Then let not what I cannot have My cheer of mind destroy. Whilst thus I sing, I am a king, Although a poor blind boy!"

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Source : Colley Cibber, “The Blind Boy”

Colley Cibber

#Cheer Quotes #Boys Quotes #Mind Quotes

“You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.”
“Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.”
“Torture gives you reliable and unreliable information. That's the reason why most people in the world don't do it. So this idea that you have to torture people in order to protect national security is a false argument, and I reject it.”
“I feel that this is my first year, that next year is an election year, that the third year is the mid point, and that the fourth year is the last chance I'll have to make a record since the last two years; I'll be a candidate again. Everything I do in those last two years will be posturing for the election. But right now I don't have to do that.”
“Beautifully-acted and precisely observed, ILO ILO is an amazing debut, full of heart and intelligence.”
“I use poetry to help me work through what I donâ€™t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that Iâ€™ve been.”
“I tend not to think that anything I happen to be reporting on in my films is special. Meaning that people are always saying to me, 'you must love New York, you have it in all your films.' But mostly it's because I know New York, and I know Brooklyn at this time. I know the lives there, because I have lived in them.”
“Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.”

Source : An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation ch. 1 (1789)

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