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> [What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives it-self out as the wisdom of ages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-everett/what-subsists-to-day-by-violence-continues-to-morrow-by-acquiescence/)

[Edward Everett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-everett/)

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> [We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government; and, lastly, a pure and spiritual religion, the deep fountain of generous enthusiasm, the mighty spring of bold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-everett/we-have-now-in-our-possession-three-instruments-of-civilization/)

[Edward Everett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-everett/)

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## Other authors on Antiquity

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- [Ralph Waldo Emerson 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiquity/ralph-waldo-emerson/)
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## More by Edward Everett

> [What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-everett/what-subsists-to-day-by-violence-continues-to-morrow-by-acquiescence/)

[Edward Everett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-everett/)

> [It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-everett/it-was-appointed-by-law-in-athens-that-the-obsequies-of-the-citizens/)

[Edward Everett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-everett/)

> [I will not refuse to do something that I can do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-everett/i-will-not-refuse-to-do-something-that-i-can-do/)

[Edward Everett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-everett/)

> [Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-everett/not-a-moment-had-been-lost-by-general-hooker-in-the-pursuit-of-lee/)

[Edward Everett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-everett/)

> [Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-everett/education-is-a-better-safeguard-of-liberty-than-a-standing-army/)

[Edward Everett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-everett/)

> [Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-everett/freedom-may-come-quickly-in-robes-of-peace-or-after-ages-of-conflict/)

[Edward Everett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-everett/)

> [An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-everett/an-earthly-immortality-belongs-to-a-great-and-good-character-history/)

[Edward Everett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-everett/)

> [I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-everett/i-should-be-glad-if-i-could-flatter-myself-that-i-came-as-near-the/)

[Edward Everett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-everett/)

> [This glorious union shall not perish! Precious legacy of our fathers, it shall go down honored and cherished to our children. Generations unborn shall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-everett/this-glorious-union-shall-not-perish-precious-legacy-of-our-fathers/)

[Edward Everett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-everett/)

> [When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-everett/when-i-am-dead-no-pageant-train-shall-waste-their-sorrows-at-my-bier/)

[Edward Everett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-everett/)

> [Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-everett/agriculture-seems-to-be-the-first-pursuit-of-civilized-man-it-enables/)

[Edward Everett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-everett/)

> [Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far down in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-everett/does-it-seem-all-but-incredible-to-you-that-intelligence-should/)

[Edward Everett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-everett/)

> [“Education safeguards liberty better than a standing army.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-everett/education-safeguards-liberty-better-than-a-standing-army/)

[Edward Everett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-everett/)

> [We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-everett/we-are-blessed-with-a-faith-which-calls-into-action-the-whole/)

[Edward Everett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-everett/)

> [The highest historical probability can be adduced in support of the proposition that, if it were possible to annihilate the Bible, and with it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-everett/the-highest-historical-probability-can-be-adduced-in-support-of-the/)

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