Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory,… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets… — John H. Vandenberg Copy Share Image
The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Educated and ambitious, with their own forthright opinions, the women of the Garvey set did more to determine political direction than many… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar:… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
Some people have criticized the United States and the United States military for guarding oil fields and not guarding the Iraqi National… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government;… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately,… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction… — Nicholas Hawksmoor Copy Share Image
It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by… — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
“At the same time, however, for antiquity the holiest sign of the presence of God, the cross, is the symbol of utter… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is… — Vincent of Lerins Copy Share Image
“To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into… — John Warwick Montgomery Copy Share Image
Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world,… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
