"It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires."

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Baron de Montesquieu

#Adventure Quotes #Greatness Quotes #Empires Quotes

“To understand is to forgive.”
“Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.”

Source : Samuel Rutherford (1863). “Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.92
“The effect of the advertising way of thinking on our brains, and how we live on our planet, is very disturbing. It's not a very good thing, and it's not the kind of thing to just make into kind of a "ha-ha."”
“Well, I want you to know how much I appreciate this. Really.”

Source : "Fictional character: Benjamin Braddock". "The Graduate", www.imdb.com. 1967.
“You can't beat everyone up all the time with the same brush”
“Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along?”
“it is in our minds that we live much of our life.”

Source : Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.23, A&C Black
“Between what human beings so naively and stupidly fear and what they most profoundly ought to fear-i.e. what they so pathogenically and addictively do to their own selves-there is a horrendous gulf and disparity.”

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