John Knox/final Years in Edinburgh 1564-1572

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    “Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman ... never gave offence to anyone, not even the enemy.”
    —A.J.P. (Alan John Percivale)

    “Death is an incident producing clay. Use it, mold it, learn from it.”
    —John Gilling, British screenwriter. Dr. Knox (Peter Cushing)

    “The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.”
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

    “But you were not living at all,
    and I was half-living,
    so where the years blight these others,
    we, who were not of the years,
    have escaped,
    we got nowhere.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)