"I will go down with my colours..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
I will go down with my colours flying.
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“Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.”
“If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.”
“to teach without zest is a crime.”
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“I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.”
“Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.”
“When our troubles are many we are often by grace made courageous in serving our God; we feel that we have nothing to live for in this world, and we are driven, by hope of the world to come, to exhibit zeal, self-denial, and industry.”
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“I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.”
“The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”
“Every year I make a plan. I do it. It will be done.”