"Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty."

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Source : Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

Horatio Nelson

#Trust No One Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Justice Quotes

“The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. . . .”
“I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house!”
“The president is always made fun of.”
“I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very few who can really see. Like you, he has an obsession with masks; he is a seer as you and I are. The common herd, of course thinks that he is mad.*****************You shall see what sort of man Ensor is, and what a marvellous insight he has into the invisible realm where our vices are created... those vices for which our faces make masks.”

Source : Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books
“I admire vegetarians who refuse to eat nothing but vegetables in their homes, but I also admire those who put aside those principles or those preferences when they travel. Just to be a good guest.”
“What God is to the world, parents are to their children.”
“But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.”

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