Shailer Mathews quotes
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“When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.”
-- Shailer MathewsSource : Shailer Mathews (2006). “The Spiritual Interpretation of History”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.
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“If it is more blessed to give than to receive, then most of us are content to let the other fellow have the greater blessing.”
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“An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.”
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“Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.”
-- Shailer MathewsSource : Shailer Mathews (1918). “Patriotism and Religion”
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“A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.”
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“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”
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“We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.”
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“Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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“Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.”
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“We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.”
Source : William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1853). “A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick”, p.183
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