"I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together."

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Source : Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall”, p.231

Joseph Hall

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“What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life”
“Sometimes God has to put us flat on our back before we are looking up to Him.”
“much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.”

Source : Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”
“You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.”
“Hail to St. Aegolius Our Alma Mater. Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee Long in the memory of every loyal owl Thy splendid banner emblazoned be. Now to thy golden talons Homage we're bringing. Guiding symbol of our hopes and fears Hark to the cries of eternal praises ringing Long may we triumph in the coming years. - The Owls of St. Aegolius”

Source : Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians”, p.33, Scholastic Inc.
“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.”
“The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.”
“A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian...”

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