Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings … - Cleopatra

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When there is a spirit of controversy in the church or in the land, a revival is needful. The spirit of religion is not the spirit of controversy. There can be no prosperity in religion, where the spirit of controversy prevails.

Cleopatra

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

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All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.

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[At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.

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Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.

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