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“The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.”

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Juliana Berners

Juliana Berners, an active writer from 1388 to 1460, is renowned for her works on agriculture and sheep farming. Her book 'The Book of St. Julian of Norwich' is an important source of medieval agricultural literature. more

“Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other systems of worship, was bloodless, boundlessly beneficent, and--most marvelous of all--went to break all bonds of body and soul, and to cast down every temporal and every spiritual tyranny.”

Soul Body Spiritual Desire Christ Religious Break Worship Casts Tyranny Selfishness Founders Marvelous Religious Faith Dominance

Author:Alfred William Howitt

“What a glorious spectacle is that of the labor of man upon the earth! It includes everything in it that is glorious. Look around and tell me what you see, that is worth seeing, that is not the work of your hands and the hands of your fellows;--the multitudes of all ages.”

Men Looks Hands Age Earth Seeing Labor Fellows Glorious Multitudes

Author:Alfred William Howitt

“Whoever has not ascended mountains knows little of the beauties of Nature.”

Knows Littles Mountain Nature Beauty

Author:Alfred William Howitt

“O Hope, sweet flatterer! thy, delusive touch Sheds on afflicted minds the balm of comfort, Relieves the load of poverty, sustains The captive, bending with the weight of bonds, And smooths the pillow of disease and pain.”

Mind Pain Hope Poverty Sweet Comfort Disease Weight Load Shed Smooth Pillow Captives Bending Flatterer

Author:Richard Glover

“Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure.”

Men Figures Ignorance Ignorant Beast

Author:Cleanthes

“Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.”

Form Censorship Stopping Leaks

Author:Julian Assange

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