Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham quotes
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“God forbid that I should go to any heaven where there are no horses.”
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“How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors?”
-- Robert Bontine Cunninghame GrahamSource : Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1902). “Success”
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“Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward.”
-- Robert Bontine Cunninghame GrahamSource : Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1970). “Thirty tales & sketches”
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“Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze!”
-- Robert Bontine Cunninghame GrahamSource : Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1902). “Success”
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“If in another world there is any riding — and God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses — I cannot but think that there will be a soft swishing as of the footsteps of some invisible horse heard occasionally on the familiar trails over which the equestrian statue is to look.”
-- Robert Bontine Cunninghame GrahamSource : "Thirty Tales & Sketches".
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Source : "'I Was Never an Anti-Semite'". articles.latimes.com. March 01, 2000.
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“A camel is a horse designed by committee.”
Source : Gordon R. Dickson (1978). “The Far Call”
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Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”
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“The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.”
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“When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.”
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“The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.”
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“One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.”
Source : "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 255, 1954.
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