Elizabeth Keckley Quotes

For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently. I lay it down as an axiom, that only that is criminal in the sight of God where crime is meditated.

Elizabeth Keckley

• God
• Crime
• Judged
• Motive
• Axiom

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• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

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• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  

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• I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.

  

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• I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'

  

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• For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently. I lay it down as an axiom, that only that is criminal in the sight of God where crime is meditated.

  

  Elizabeth Keckley
  • God
  • Crime
  • Judged