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Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown!

Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown!

Quote by William Shakespeare about love, pain

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as...

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about love

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is...

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about peace, love

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my...

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

Quote by John Oldham about god, conscience

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes...

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about glory, dance

Culture is rougly anything else we do and the monkeys don't.

Culture is rougly anything else we do and the monkeys don't.

Quote by Lord Raglan about culture

What do you read, my lord.

What do you read, my lord.

Quote by William Shakespeare about love

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord.

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord.

Quote by William Shakespeare about love, name, woman, good, good luck, man

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last....

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Quote by Lord Acton about man, people, things

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration...

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

Quote by Lord Acton about advertising, justice, secret, nothing, things

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I...

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Quote by Lord Acton about money, artists, things

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, ...

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Quote by Lord Acton about nothing

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Quote by Lord Acton about writing

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is...

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Quote by Lord Acton about end, liberty

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Quote by Lord Acton about day, end, nothing

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

Quote by Lord Acton about teaching, tests, faith, public, good, good luck

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but...

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Quote by Lord Acton about eternity, fall, change, moral

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Quote by Lord Acton about power, absolute

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts...

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Quote by Lord Acton about corruption, power, absolute

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts...

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Quote by Lord Acton about corruption, power, man, absolute, bad luck, bad

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