Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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God forbid that I should go to any heaven where there are no horses.
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How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors?
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Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward.
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Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze!
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If in another world there is any riding — and God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses — I cannot but think that there will be a soft swishing as of the footsteps of some invisible horse heard occasionally on the familiar trails over which the equestrian statue is to look.
-- Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
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I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.
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A camel is a horse designed by committee.
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These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.
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O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.
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The power to bind and loose to Truth is given: The mouth that speaks it is the mouth of Heaven, The power, which in a sense belongs to none, Thus understood belongs to every one.
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The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.
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There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children
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When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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