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One Quotes by William Wilberforce
- No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and…
- I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for…
- Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?
- My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post…
- If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever…
- Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to…
- Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good…
- What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent,…
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- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
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