"For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption."

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Source : Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works”

Vittorio Alfieri

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“God wants His people to be ablaze with Holy Ghost activity.”
“I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.”
“Talent is truth on display.”
“My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do?”
“It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.”
“Just because you're from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn't mean you don't read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what's going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.”
“Most people dont think about race as much as I do. They dont have to.”
“The father is the head of the home; the mother is the heart of the home; the children are the reward, the joy and the life of the home.”

Source : Angus Buchan (2011). “Faith Like Potatoes: The story of a farmer who risked everything for God”, p.167, Monarch Books

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