"The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!"

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Source : Ann Radcliffe (2015). “The Mysteries of Udolpho”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

Ann Radcliffe

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“Let me say to you, that many of you will see the time when you will have all the trouble, trial and persecution that you can stand, and plenty of opportunities to show that you are true to God and his work. This Church has before it many close places through which it will have to pass before the work of God is crowned with victory. The time will come when no man nor woman will be able to endure on borrowed light. Each will have to be guided by the light within himself. If you do not have it, how can you stand?”
“Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.”
“States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.”
“Fair is whatever God wants to do.”

Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.294, Atlantic Monthly Press
“Only power can get people into a position where they may be noble.”

Source : Quoted in M Korda Power in the Office (1976).
“Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every time you walk away from an encounter, your brain has been altered, sometimes permanently.”
“It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.”
“Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.”

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