"Let Indian history be set side by side……" — Annie Besant
"Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison."
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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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More Blush Quotes
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one of 197 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A letter does not blush.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an…
— Charles Darwin
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Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow
— William Shakespeare
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in…
— Charles Darwin
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The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that…
— Charles Darwin
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See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the…
— Mary McCarthy
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It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
— George Herbert
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There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush…
— John Keats
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
— James Joyce
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