"We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste……" — T.E. Lawrence
"We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty."
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42 Quotes by T.E. Lawrence
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Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.
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As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people,…
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Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to…
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It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has…
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Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
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Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting…
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To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.
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I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly,
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The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
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In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in…
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