"The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy" — Thomas Bulfinch
"The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy"
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Thomas Bulfinch
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18 Quotes by Thomas Bulfinch
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The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.
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Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work…
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It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.
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If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise…
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For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of…
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Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity…
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The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.
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ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost…
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We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the…
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Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
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The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted…
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Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or…
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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain…
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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
— Joseph Addison
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I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of…
— Richard Nelson Bolles
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Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the…
— Unknown Author
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In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in…
— Sun Tzu
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The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible…
— Claude Bernard
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There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the…
— Ted Simon
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Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We…
— Winston Churchill
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few…
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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