Frederic William Maitland quotes
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“The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.”
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“We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.”
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“The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.”
-- Frederic William Maitland
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“Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.”
Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.264, Macmillan
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“Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 555), 1895.
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“Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.”
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“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”
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