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There are a great many poor people who are very sick, and yet have no money to buy food, or clothes, or physic; and there are many more so ignorant that they never heard of the Bible, and think they do very right, when they roast and eat their enemies!

— Fowell Buxton Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849)

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How wonderful are the ways of the Lord (God); how sweet his mercies, how terrible his judgements!

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In this world I shall never be anything but a mere moderate– behind the foremost, and before the last.

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No man has a surplus of power: meaning by power— time, talents, money, influence.

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No longer from Parliament with an easy mind, so we must be satisfied.

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I shall speak as well as I can for usefulness, but not for fame.

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