Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier quotes
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“In a drop of rain can be seen the colors of the sun.”
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“History-writing is not a visit of condolence.”
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“Historical research to this day remains unorganized, and the historian is expected to make his own instruments or do without them; and so with wooden ploughs we continue to draw lonely furrows, most successfully when we strike sand.”
-- Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier
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“Life isn’t how you survive the thunderstorm, but how you dance in the rain.”
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“I hate the color red almost as much as i hate blond hair,"he said with an amused tone. -Dank”
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“Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.”
Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.68, Lulu.com
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“Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.”
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“The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears.”
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“I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.”
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“Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.”
Source : Alfred Noyes (1911). “Drake. The enchanted island. New poems”
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