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John Buchan Inspirational Quotes (37)

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He who would valiant be against all disaster let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.
John Buchan
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You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.
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Without humility there can be no humanity.
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Wise men never grow up indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
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I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
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I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.
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I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.
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Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.
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London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.
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I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.
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There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.
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It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home.
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
John Buchan
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