Previous Ruler

Famous quotes containing the words previous and/or ruler:

    “No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “For in the division of the nations of the whole earth he set a ruler over every people; but Israel is the Lord’s portion: whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with discipline, and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him. Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways.”
    —Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 17:17-9.