Bathsua Makin quotes
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“... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.”
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“A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.”
-- Bathsua MakinSource : 1673 An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen In Religion, Manners, Art and Tongues,With An Answer to the Objections against this Way of Education.
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“To ask too much is the way to be denied all.”
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“Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you.”
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“These men of Law and their confederates ... the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up the free-born people of this Nation.”
-- Bathsua Makin
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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“I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.”
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