"As to London we must console ourselves with……" — Goldwin Smith
"As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper."
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32 Quotes by Goldwin Smith
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Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
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The father of confederation is deadlock.
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We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other…
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The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
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Above all nations is humanity,
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Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into…
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Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
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There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and…
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Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly…
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The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to…
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The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual…
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No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist…
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him…
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always…
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O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood…
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Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God.
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you…
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Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world,…
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Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.
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"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want…
— John Green
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Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you…
— Isaac Asimov
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We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a…
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