Charlotte Turner Smith quotes
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“If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.”
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“In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.”
-- Charlotte Turner SmithSource : Charlotte Turner Smith, Stuart Curran (2006). “The Works of Charlotte Smith: Marchmont (1796)”
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“...May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning chime, Seem in reproving notes to tell, Of hours mispent, and murder'd time....”
-- Charlotte Turner SmithSource : Charlotte Turner Smith (2014). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Charlotte Smith (Illustrated)”, p.299, Delphi Classics
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“... Silene, who declines The garish noontide's blazing light; But when the evening crescent shines, Gives all her sweetness to the night....”
-- Charlotte Turner SmithSource : Charlotte Turner Smith (2014). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Charlotte Smith (Illustrated)”, p.300, Delphi Classics
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“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”
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“Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.”
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Source : Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston (2016). “The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill”, p.1629, Del Rey
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“If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.”
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“The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self.”
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“You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]”
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“The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.”
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