James Russell Lowell: Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy .

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, wit — James Russell Lowell

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy .

James Russell Lowell

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أَنَامُ مِلْءَ جُفُونِي عَنْ شَوَارِدِهَا *** وَيَسْهَرُ الْخَلْقُ جَرَّاهَا وَي — Al-Mutanabbi
Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion. — Sir Thomas Browne
The clergy are as like as peas. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always thought It was both impious and unnatural That such immanity and bloody — William Shakespeare
My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt. — Fernando Pessoa
Like rowers, who advance backward. — Michel de Montaigne
Death is never very far. — Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
One great reason why clergymen's households are generally unhappy is because the — Samuel Butler
'T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficie — Michel de Montaigne
Oh Justice, when expelled from other habitations, make this thy dwelling place. — William Jewell
Ich glaube an Spinoza's Gott, der sich in der gesetzlichen Harmonie des Seienden — Albert Einstein
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind i — Ralph Waldo Emerson