"Mankind was never so happily inspired as when……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail."
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign…
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting…
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we…
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the…
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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More Cathedral Quotes
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Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and…
— Tony Campolo
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The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral…
— Unknown Author
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A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspires others to build it.
— Jan Carlzon
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Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full…
— Violette Leduc
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Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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You need a plan for everything, whether it's building a cathedral or a chicken coop. Without a plan, you'll postpone…
— John Goddard
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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you…
— Alan Garner
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Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor,…
— Arthur Compton
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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new…
— Margaret Mead
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