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Fowell Buxton
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“The longer I live the more certain I am that the great difference between men, the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy and invincible determination – a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged creature a man without it.”
Fowell Buxton (1837–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I shall speak as well as I can for usefulness, but not for fame.”
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Recorded in: Letter to a friend, 24 February 1825, quoted in Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, p. 152.
“I should very much like to be a country gentleman. I would not have the best horses, or dogs, or farms, in the county; but I would exert myself to improve the people who were under my influence.”
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Recorded in: Letter to A Clergyman, Cromer Hall, 22 August 1826, quoted in Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, p. 152.
“No man has a surplus of power: meaning by power— time, talents, money, influence.”
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Recorded in: Letter to A Clergyman, Cromer Hall, 22 August 1826, quoted in Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, p. 154.
“I am no politician.”
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Recorded in: Letter to Charles Simeon from Cambridge, 14 January 1820, quoted in Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, p. 84-85.
“How wonderful are the ways of the Lord (God); how sweet his mercies, how terrible his judgements!”
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Recorded in: 16 April 1820, quoted in Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Chapter 7, p. 86
“No longer from Parliament with an easy mind, so we must be satisfied.”
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Recorded in: 17 January 1821, quoted in Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Chapter 7, p. 89
“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!”
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Recorded in: 28 January 1821, Letter to one of his little boys, quoted in Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Chapter 7, p. 92
“In this world I shall never be anything but a mere moderate– behind the foremost, and before the last.”
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Recorded in: 15 March 1821, quoted in Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Chapter 7, p. 94