“If you are cheerful, and wish to remain so, leave the study of astronomy alone. Of all the sciences, it alone deserves the character of the terrible.”
Two on a Tower (1882), vol 1, ch. 4 (Swithin St Cleeve speaking to Viviette Constantine)
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English novelist and poet 1840–1928Related quotes
“You have to be taught to leave us alone. Leave us alone.”
David Zellaby (Martin Stephens), Village of the Damned (speaking to his uncle about himself and the other alien children) (1960).
“You sod, Leave my soul alone, leave my soul alone”
Poem In the theatre, in: Dannie Abse (1997) Welsh retrospective, p. 43
"O'Reilly Open Source Conference: Day 3" by Paul Weinstein, in Apache Week (26 July 2002) http://www.apacheweek.com/features/oscon2002
2000s
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, pp. 420-421
Context: Though absent from our eyes, Christ our Head is bound to us by love. Since the whole Christ is Head and body, let us so listen to the voice of the Head that we may also hear the body speak.
He no more wished to speak alone than He wished to exist alone, since He says: “Behold, I am with you all days, unto the consummation of the world” (Matt. 28:20). If He is with us, then He speaks in us, He speaks of us, and He speaks through us; and we too speak in Him.
“No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.”
Source: Nothing to Lose