Quote by Elizabeth I
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, whic

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God. – Elizabeth I

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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. – Elizabeth I

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Faith
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I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people. – Elizabeth I

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thankful
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Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. – Elizabeth I

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So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma. – Christy Turlington

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You cant write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. Im very interested in what religion does to us – its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence. – Geraldine Brooks

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Religion

Some people would have us love, or rather obey God, chiefly because he outbids the devil. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Everyday people are straying away from the church and going back to God. – Lennie Bruce, The Essential Lennie Bruce, 1972

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Religion

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The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. – Mark Twain

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I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. Im only just learning how to do certain things. – Art Garfunkel

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Learning

I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

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Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel. – Buffy Sainte-Marie

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