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Mass migration and the refugee crisis is one of the biggest problems facing the world. In this country we assume that everyone just wants to come to the U.K. - but it's an issue in Germany, Greece, Sweden, all across the E.U. Why should we be the first to turn our backs on the problem? ”
Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning. ”
If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days. ”
Biography is one of the new terrors of death. ”
As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander. ”
I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode. ”
An unused life is an early death. ”
A useless life is an early death. ”
Our task is a great one, not just because of how far we have fallen. Our task is a great one because of the challenges facing the people we seek to serve. ”
In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue. ”