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“I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.”
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King James I
#Gentleman Quotes
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“Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.”
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King James I
#Marijuana Quotes
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“God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe.”
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King James I
#Kings Quotes
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“When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.”
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King James I
#Men Quotes
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“If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].”
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King James I
#Kings Quotes
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“It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.”
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King James I
#Future Quotes
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“That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.”
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King James I
#Men Quotes
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“The wisest fool in Christendom.”
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King James I
#Fool Quotes
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“Were I not a king, I would be a university man.”
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King James I
#Kings Quotes
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“A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”
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King James I
Source : "A Counterblaste to Tobacco". 1604.
#Eye Quotes
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“The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.”
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King James I
Source : Speech to Parliament at Whitehall, March 21, 1609.
#Kings Quotes
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“I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors.”
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King James I
Source : On Roman Catholics, at the opening of parliament, 1604.
#Mother Quotes
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“Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.”
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King James I
#Men Quotes
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“That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God.”
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King James I
Source : Speech in the Star Chamber, June 1616.
#Kings Quotes
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“If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.”
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King James I
Source : Speaking of the Puritans at Hampton Court Conference, January 16, 1604.
#Kings Quotes
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“Smoke.. makes a kitchen also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soiling and infecting them, with an unctuous and oily kinde of Soote as hath been found in some great Tobacco takers, that after their death were opened.”
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King James I
#Dark Quotes
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“To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.”
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King James I
#Foxes Quotes
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