#his

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#anything #attempts #beliefs #countrymen #day

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#american public #chance #conferences #his #mind

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#counted #counting #does #enough #every

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God. ↗

— John Donne

#creature #eyes #god #himself #his

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no. ↗

— John Donne

#breath #friends #go #goes #men

I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing. ↗

— Richard Donner

#book #his #i #love #really

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#brain #dead #fell #his #lightning

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#assign #born #climates #common #countless

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#humor #man #more #nothing #sense

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost. ↗

— Lloyd C. Douglas

#damages #fear #ghost #harbors #him