“There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 135
“A mother's boy has never wept, nor dashed a thousand kim.”
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“My mother groaned, my father wept,
into the dangerous world I leapt.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
“Our course of advance … is neither a straight line nor a curve. It is a series of dots and dashes.”
Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870–1938) United States federal judge
Other writings, The Paradoxes of Legal Science (1928)
Context: Our course of advance... is neither a straight line nor a curve. It is a series of dots and dashes. Progress comes per saltum, by successive compromises between extremes, compromises often … between "positivism and idealism". The notion that a jurist can dispense with any consideration as to what the law ought to be arises from the fiction that the law is a complete and closed system, and that judges and jurists are mere automata to record its will or phonographs to pronounce its provisions.
“Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
“A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Pearce
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Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Bhakti
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Infant Sorrow, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
“For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.”
Alan Paton book Cry, the Beloved Country
Source: Cry, the Beloved Country
William T. Sherman (1820–1891) American General, businessman, educator, and author.
Letter to his wife (July 1864)
1860s, 1864