Top 16 Quotes About Thomas Clarkson
#1. The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.
Dalai Lama XIV
#2. There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
Thomas Clarkson
#3. Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.
Thomas Clarkson
#4. Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.
Thomas Clarkson
#5. It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
Thomas Clarkson
#6. One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog of work I've done.
Nick Cave
#7. Was she jealous?" "She was," he said, not yelling now, "and domineering, and spoiled, and suspicious, and greedy, and mean, and unscrupulous, and deceitful, and selfish, and damned bad - altogether damned bad!
Dashiell Hammett
#8. There is no such thing as a hate crime.
Ron Paul
#9. Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility
Thomas Jefferson
#10. We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
Thomas Clarkson
#11. Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?
Thomas Clarkson
#12. Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.
Goldie Hawn
#13. Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.
Thomas Clarkson
#14. When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
Thomas Clarkson
#15. I haven't always been fashionable, but I've always not really cared so much about how I dress.
Ashton Moio
#16. Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.
R.S. Thomas
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