“Whatever I intend to do, I shall test it first on My own family.”

The Life of Oyasama, Foundress of Tenrikyo, p. 28
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Nakayama Miki19

Founder of Tenrikyo 1798–1887

David Gemmell book The King Beyond the Gate

Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 8

“What shall I do to be forever known,
And make the age to come my own?”

Abraham Cowley The Motto

The Motto; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.”
Ad Graecas literas totum animum applicui; statimque ut pecuniam accepero, Graecos primum autores, deinde vestes emam.

Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian

Letter to Jacob Batt (12 April 1500); Collected Works of Erasmus Vol 1 (1974)
Variant translation: When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

“The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for — its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.”

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing

Cassandra (1860)

“I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

On Writing Poetry (1995)

“You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Letter to Cassandra (1801-01-08) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

“Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

“I want to finish work on my mother's juvenile (Farmer Boy manuscript) by the end of June. There's a curious half-angry reluctance in my writing for other people. I say to myself that whatever earnings there may be are all in the family. Also I seize upon this task as an excuse to postpone my own work.”

Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968) American journalist

Diary (May 29, 1933).

“I do not know whether my enemies will reply to me, or adopt the role of silence. Whatever they may do I declare to them that this letter will be my only reply to all their calumnies, past, present or future; and I give my word of honor to the public that whatsoever they may say or do, I shall not write a single line more in my justification.”

Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) Italian occultist

Postscriptum
Cagliostro’s Letter to the English People (1787)

“A man may make his way across the Atlantic in a skiff, for all I know; but if you are intending to cross the sea, take my advice, and secure passage in a first-class steamer, and you will be more likely to get there. So it is with these heathen millions. I do not know but some of them may drift, and we shall find them in the city of God. But I do know that by giving them the gospel, by building up and supporting among them a Christian church, we shall greatly multiply their chances for heaven.”

Charles Henry Fowler (1837–1908) American bishop

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 417.

“Whatever I intend to do, I shall test it first on My own family.”

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