Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie quotes
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“If you give a man a fish, he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish, you do him a good turn.”
-- Anne Isabella Thackeray RitchieSource : "Mrs Dymond". Book by Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, 1885.
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“Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise!”
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“People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them. And yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts.”
-- Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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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 : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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