Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper."
Cottages quotes
Cottages
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C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself"
Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy."
Joseph Warren
Physician, Patriot
"Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery."
Washington Irving
Author
"Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture."
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"Life is very nice in Hawaii. I rent a place that has its own cottage so when my friends and family come to visit, they have somewhere nice to stay."
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"Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry."
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"I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule is the spade I hold: Come they from cottage or come they from hall, Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all! Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin I gather them in, I gather them in!"
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"I cannot get into cottage cheese, and I've tried a lot. Yogurt is hard for me to eat, too. I have to hold my nose to get it down. There's something wrong with that."
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"Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own."
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"The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish."
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"Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need."
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