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"I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust."
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"The first direction of a prayer: believe that God is able to manage your problem and appeal to Him."
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"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."
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"God is the guarantee of our security."
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"Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds."
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"God punishes people, who belittle Him with their complaints."
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"Hold fast to God, do not give up and He will fulfill His Word concerning you, for He is faithful who has promised."
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"But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation."
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"The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture."
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"I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good."
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"Trust. And be trusted."
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"I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust."
Trust
"It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending."
Thought
"What I can do for my country, I am willing to do."
Nation
"I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed."
Faith
"If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it."
Acceptance
"No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself."
History
"My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature."
Nature
"The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords."
Rights
"And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business."
Business
"The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage."
Life
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