Frederic William Maitland famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.
Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.
It's really seeing student involvement â€¦ as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.

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