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literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
literature
We are so very 'umble.
prophet proof prove
Jesters do oft prove prophets. William Shakespeare
prophet wanted saviour
I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe Bob Dylan
prophet unconscious
We are all at times unconscious prophets. Charles Spurgeon
prophetic
You do not need to be very prophetic to say the Championship is over. F. Schumacher
prophet teach new-things
Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time? Anne Spencer
prophet servant
Servant is who you are; prophet is what you do.
prophets spirits subject
And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
prophetic
Alan Moore is a prophetic writer. Gerard Way
prophet said masters
There is no Master but the Master,” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet. Isaac Asimov
historian recorders visuals
I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian. David Burnett
historians illuminate invisible power roads shape taken time
I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time? Rick Perlstein
historians
Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.
historian historians reflect speaking
I've said before that I am not a historian and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it. Hassan Rouhani
historian rewriting-history
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them. George W. Bush
historians human prefer
The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction. Niall Ferguson
historian millennia worldwide
What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense. Paul Johnson
historian novelist wants
The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did. Michael Korda
historian traveling
I'm very excited, especially traveling with the president, who is a historian on Scotland.