"Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient."

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Source : "The treasury of British eloquence, compiled by R. Cochrane", (p. 111), 1877.

Robert Walpole

#Views Quotes #Quiet Quotes #Danger Quotes

“Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.”
“Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess You have given me. I surrender it all to You to be disposed of according to Your will. Give me only Your love and Your grace; with these I will be rich enough, and will desire nothing more.”
“Problems arenâ€™t out there, whatever is missing is what you are not giving, and whatever crisis you are hitting is a call for more of you to come out, for more of you to emerge.”
“The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.”
“People look at rights as if they were muscles â€” the more you exercise them, the better they get.”
“...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.”

Source : Gisèle Freund (1980). “Photography & Society”
“Pause and remember - Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful!”
“I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His feet, with no other disposition in my heart than that of merging my will into His will, and no other language in my mouth than that of prayer for the perfecting of His strength in my weakness.”

Source : Thomas Chalmers (1847). “Daily Scripture Readings: In Three Volumes”, p.34

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