"The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many……" — John Lothrop Motley
"The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude."
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John Lothrop Motley
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29 Quotes by John Lothrop Motley
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Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.
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Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones,…
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
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The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God;…
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A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
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Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
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Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
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For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
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A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
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In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
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A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
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In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
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More Ferocious Quotes
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
— James A. Baldwin
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We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and…
— Richard Branson
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Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a…
— Unknown Author
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Play by the rules, but be ferocious.
— Phil Knight
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Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and…
— Khalil Gibran
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Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I…
— Mike Tyson
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But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking…
— Armistead Maupin
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Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the…
— Hans Zinsser
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[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties.…
— Mary Ruwart
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Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and…
— Kevin Rudd
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