"The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason,……" — John Lothrop Motley
"The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken."
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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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A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
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The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
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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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