Here lies our sovereign lord, the king,
Whose word no man relies on,
Who never said a foolish thing,
And never did a wise one.-Rochester. To Charles II.
"That is very true, for my words are my own. My actions are my minister's." Answer of Charles II, according to the account in Hume's History of England, VIII, p. 312.
Here lies our mutton-looking king,
Whose word no man relied on,
Who never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one.-Another version of Rochester's Epitaph on Charles II, included in works of Quarles.
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel. -Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) _Smoke_ [1867]
“True love for God comes from being stunned by being loved by God.” - @desiringGod - John Piper
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