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Literary Historian Inspirational Quotes (5894)

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Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.
W. H. Auden
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The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.
W. H. Auden
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Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.
W. H. Auden
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The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.
W. H. Auden
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The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.
W. H. Auden
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
Samuel Johnson
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Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
C. S. Lewis
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Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for to make them worth it.
C. S. Lewis
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It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote awareness of the possibilities of life.
F. R. Leavis
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Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. - John V. Lindsay No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
Samuel Johnson
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The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
Thomas Carlyle
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Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.
Samuel Johnson
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We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.
Samuel Johnson
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.
Samuel Johnson
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
Walter Anderson
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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson
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It is only for those without hope that hope is given.
Walter Benjamin
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Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].
Walter Benjamin
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Walter Benjamin
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Walter Benjamin
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How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
Walter Benjamin
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There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
Walter Benjamin
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