"If it were a real effort to live……" — Goldwin Smith
"If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication."
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Goldwin Smith
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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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More Ages Quotes
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I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and…
— Margaret Atwood
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
— Sri Aurobindo
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
— Sri Aurobindo
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of…
— Diane Ackerman
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
— Francis Bacon
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The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.
— Amy Adams
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
— Honore de Balzac
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,…
— Annie Besant
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
— Aneurin Bevan
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