Kate Horsley Quotes

#1. Power does not willingly give up its place to truth.

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#2. It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.

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#3. the greatest trick of kings is to fool the poor into thinking we have common cause with the rich simply because we live on the same bog. Then the poor get their heads split open in the battles they fight so the rich can keep their wine cellars well stocked.

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#4. I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.

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#5. Use words to please, to instruct, to soothe. Then stop speaking.

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#6. Knowledge often spoils devotion.

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#7. But I knew that I would have to live forever with what I did on that night of dying, and that if I chose to be a coward, I would have to repeat such cowardice over and over again in order to justify that it had ever occurred.

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#8. It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

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