Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford quotes

“Just like Love is yonder rose, Heavenly fragrance round it throws, Yet tears its dewy leaves disclose, And in the midst of briars it blows Just like Love.”
-- Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford

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“Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.”

“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”

“Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.”

“I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.”

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“Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.”

“A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.”

“We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.”

“Other times when I hear the wind blow I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.”

“People say love can be developed, but in the end, the only person you love is yourself. That's why you choose to love someone who can please you the most.”

“I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.”