“If I am right, Thy grace import
Still in the right to stay;
If I am wrong, oh teach my heart
To find that better way!”
The Universal Prayer (1738)
Source: Moral Essays
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Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer
"The Monitions of the Unseen", p. 31.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)
“But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Source: Clockwork Prince
Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934) Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and president of Germany
As quoted in TIME magazine (13 January 1930)
President
“I am still on my zigzag way, pursuing the diagonal between reason and heart.”
Ruskin Bond (1934) British Indian writer
Source: Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas
“If I am real, if I am speaking from the heart zone, the right words will come.”
Gerry Spence (1929) American lawyer
Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995), Ch. 7 : The Power of Words, p. 104
Context: If I am real, if I am speaking from the heart zone, the right words will come. They will come a spoonful at a time, in the proper mixture.
“My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking.”
Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929) French soldier and military theorist
Mon centre cède, ma droite recule, situation excellente, j'attaque.
Message to Marshal Joseph Joffre during the First Battle of the Marne (8 September 1914), as quoted in Foch : Le Vainqueur de la Guerre (1919) by Raymond Recouly, Ch. 6
Henry Francis Lyte (1793–1847) Anglican priest, hymn-writer and poet
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 276.