It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye t...o some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerab...le presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet; Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet.... There, wrapped in cloud of sorrow, pity move, And tell the ravisher of my soul I perish for her love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot!... Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry, "God for Harry! England and Saint George!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gentlemen in England now abed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,... And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Saint, saintliness is a long way off. It is like a tall and beautiful palm tree.... If you climb it, you drink the love potion, but if you fall you break into pieces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »