"A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may……" — Samuel Eliot Morison
"A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!"
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Samuel Eliot Morison
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23 Quotes by Samuel Eliot Morison
Samuel Eliot Morison has 23 quotes on this site.
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The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was…
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Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.
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Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already…
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America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted;…
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The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.
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If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico…
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If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . .…
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But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens,…
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that…
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though…
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Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can…
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A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves…
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More Budding Quotes
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one of 44 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.
— Todd Akin
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And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed…
— Pablo Neruda
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Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist…
— Eric Partridge
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It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed…
— Charles Dickens
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When the April wind wakes the call for the soil, I hold the plough as my only hold upon the…
— Unknown Author
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The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose…
— Walter Scott
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Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part…
— Bob Riley
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is…
— Carson McCullers
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There is a budding morrow in midnight.
— John Keats
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That two bodies press convulsively together, man and woman, he fertilizing her, he giving her a budding life, or he…
— Unknown Author
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During youth a blossoming and budding forth tries to happen from inside out as each young person encounters what is…
— Michael Meade
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