"Some think that even the ancients who lived……" — Mary Hunter Austin
"Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of nature; for they made the Oceanus and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the Gods as being by water, to which they give the name of Styx; for what is oldest is most honourable, and the most honourable thing is that by which one swears"
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Mary Hunter Austin
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19 Quotes by Mary Hunter Austin
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Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.
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No man can be stronger than his destiny.
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Death by starvation is slow.
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