Hamilton Wright Mabie Quotes
It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.
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I lost a great uncle in World War II who was with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.
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Don't ask who said it? Ask what they said.
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W.H.R. Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.
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Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.
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I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.
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The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss--a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.
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It is good to live and learn.
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It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.
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I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it.
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Lollapalooza is a place where young upstarts become legends, and legends return to claim their fame.
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This group right here is one of the most underrated groups in football. We don’t talk enough about this group. Very smart, they don’t leave the field, they play every single down, and they can cover backs and tight ends out of the backfield. This group is special.
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No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.
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I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis lazuli, to sapphires and aquamarines; to cobalt skies and blue-black seas; Moslem tiles - and to a blue flower whether or not it has any other merit.
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Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ’s modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you—it should.
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It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.
