James Theodore Bent quotes
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“Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.”
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“The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.”
-- James Theodore BentSource : James Theodore Bent, Al. N. Oikonomidēs (1965). “Aegean Islands; the Cyclades, Or; Life Among the Insular Greeks”, Chicago, Argonaut
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“In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.”
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“In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.”
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“The most terrible things end, at last.”
-- James Theodore BentSource : James Theodore Bent (1885). “The Cyclades: Or, Life Among the Insular Greeks”, London, Longmans
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“In every island of the Aegaean Sea, on almost every barren rock I might say, are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire; and if the race was not far advanced in the arts of civilisation, it must at all events have had great numerical force.”
-- James Theodore BentSource : "Aegean Islands: The Cyclades, Or Life Among the Insular Greeks".
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“There is more healing joy in five minutes of true worship than in five nights of revelry.”
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“Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?”
Source : Aidan Chambers (1999). “Postcards from No Man's Land: A Novel”, Random House (UK)
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