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Oliver Cromwell Quotes about Desire

All Oliver Cromwell Quotes Desire quotes Inspirational Liberty Military War
Make the iron hot by striking it.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Oliver Cromwell
Inspirational, Iron, Desire

My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

Oliver Cromwell
Desire, Haste, Gone
1658 Last words. Quoted in John Morley Oliver Cromwell (1900), bk.5, ch.10.

Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

Oliver Cromwell
War, Skills, Desire
Quoted in HoraceWalpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England (1763). Usually misquoted as "warts and all."

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