Sir John Spencer

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“And as the sun above the light doth bring,
Though we behold it in the air below,
So from th’ eternal Light the soul doth spring,
Though in the body she her powers do show.”
—Sir John Davies (1569–1626)

“I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman ... I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.”
—Francis, Sir Drake (1540–1596)

“A process of genocide is being carried out before the eyes of the world.”
—Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)

“Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.”
—Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)