"Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails……" — Annie Besant
"Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his 'Lamentations' are really not worth reading."
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Annie Besant
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122 Quotes by Annie Besant
Annie Besant has 122 quotes on this site.
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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience…
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the…
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Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract…
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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
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Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life…
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The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from…
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What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That…
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An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who…
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Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.
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It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You…
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
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