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Friday 7 September 2018

Quotes Sep 8

“Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,—
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.”
―James Russell Lowell Mcdonald

"Death is the funeral of all our sorrows." Thomas Watson

Courage is contagious.  When a brave man takes a
stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
     --Billy Graham (1918-    )
      _Reader's Digest_ [July 1964], "A Time For Moral Courage"

What philosophers prove one year,
philosophers disprove another year.
     --C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)
      _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 34 [1888]

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
     --Pyrrhus (c. 318-272 BC)
      (Referring to the victory at the Battle of Asculum
       in 279 BC where he suffered devastation.

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