Moncure D. Conway quotes
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“The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer...”
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“All religion and all ethics are summed up in justice.”
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“It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.”
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“Scholars may quote Plato in studies, but the hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength from its inspiration, as the meadows draw it from the brook.”
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“If you can but give to the fainting soul at your door a cup of water from the wells of truth, it shall flash back on you the radiance of God. As you save, so shall you be saved.”
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“It is a much easier thing to unloose the demon war than to chain him up again.”
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“War is a monster with snaky locks, and fiery bloodshot eyes, and harpy claws, passing over fair fields and leaving its footprints in burning villages, dying men, weeping wives and children, and needs to be seen by those who so eagerly clamour for it at every opportunity. The sight of that fearful phantom, girt round with skulls, chains reeking with blood and desolation and ruin in its track, would stop their eagerness for it, unless under real compulsion.”
-- Moncure D. Conway
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“Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.”
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“I was a great dreamer of day dreams.”
Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.10, Courier Corporation
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Source : Song: No Regrets
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Source : Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.249, Scholastic
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Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1861). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.15
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“Only power can get people into a position where they may be noble.”
Source : Quoted in M Korda Power in the Office (1976).
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“For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.”
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“For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.”
Source : Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.176
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