"The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt……" — John Lothrop Motley
"The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests."
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John Lothrop Motley
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29 Quotes by John Lothrop Motley
John Lothrop Motley has 29 quotes on this site.
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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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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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More Forests Quotes
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one of 1,101 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part…
— John James Audubon
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
— Diane Ackerman
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which…
— Charles Baudelaire
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We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean…
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and…
— Wendell Berry
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is…
— Hal Borland
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Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I…
— Bill Bradley
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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
— A. Whitney Brown
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I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some…
— Nicolas Cage
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The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and…
— James Cameron
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
— Willa Cather
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