"What has history said of eminence without honor,……" — Orson F. Whitney
"What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?"
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21 Quotes by Orson F. Whitney
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It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire…
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There is only one way into the Kingdom of Heaven, but there are many ways into the human heart: and…
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The redemption of Zion is more than the purchase or recovery of lands, the building of cities, or even the…
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There is nothing so important, so imperative, as the delivery of the divine message that has been entrusted to us.
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We cannot judge fully of men's works by what we see, or what is said and thought of them; for…
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The God we worship is no respecter of persons, but He is a respecter of men's rights, and a guardian…
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The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.
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No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.
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The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The…
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No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development…
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No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we…
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our…
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
— Saint Augustine
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,…
— Diane Ackerman
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To…
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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted…
— Annie Besant
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
— Annie Besant
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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