When you are come to the other side of the water, and have set down your foot on the shore of glorious eternity, and look back again to the waters, a to your wearisome journey, and shall see in that clear glass of endless glory, nearer to the bottom of God's wisdom, you shall then be forced to say, I God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoying of the crown of glory.- - Samuel Rutherford
Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life and it ought not to be. The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure will she have for it, even as an accomplishment and a recreation.- Robert Southey, Poet Laureate to. Charlotte Brontë 12 Mar 1837
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.-- Anna Sewell (1820-1878): "Black Beauty," 1877.
I am sick of shit masquerading as art. Brian Sewell on The Turner Prize, 1998, Evening Standard
We seek the truth and will endure the consequences. ---Charles Seymour (1885-1963) in James B. Simpson (ed.) _Simpson's Contemporary Quotations_ (1988) p. 115
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