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But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
T. H. White
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T. H. White
Age: 57 †
Born: 1906
Born: May 29
Died: 1964
Died: January 17
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Terence Hanbury White
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My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is not yet ripe for you to be a hawk... so you may as well sit down for the moment and learn to be a human being.
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They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get.
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If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
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Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
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Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.
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Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.
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It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.
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I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn
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We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
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In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.
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Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you can 't do that.
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Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble. Why should not God have come to the earth as an earth-worm? There are a great many more worms than men, and they do a great deal more good.
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The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.
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Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.
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When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?
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Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
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He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.
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It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by microbes, which are too small to be appreciated.
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