His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
QUEEN VICTORIAThat Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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Were women to “unsex” themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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