Daniel Walker Howe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

George Smith shows how many of the prophetâ€™s followers embraced plural marriage during a period when the LDS Church was emphatically denying the practice â€¦ [and he tells this in] a lucid writing style.
-- Daniel Walker Howe

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Alexander von Humboldtâ€™s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Personâ€™s stunning new translation makes the wonders of this classic accessible to the English-language world of the present.
-- Daniel Walker Howe

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Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested, like the laws of biology and physics, the intelligent design of a Divine Creator.
-- Daniel Walker Howe

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Alexander von Humboldt’s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person’s stunning new translation makes the wonders of this classic accessible to the English-language world of the present.
-- Daniel Walker Howe

#Art #Views #World

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.
Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.
Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.
The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests.
It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.
In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is no longer like than now; it is (because) for the ancients, moral was a principle of inner life, whereas in our days, most of the time one is content to adhere to an official moral, that we recognize in theory, but that one does not care to put into practice.
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
If we will build righteous traditions in our families, the light of the gospel can grow ever brighter in the lives of our children from generation to generation. We can look forward to that glorious day when we will all be united together as eternal family units to reap the everlasting joy promised by our Eternal Father for His righteous children.

Daniel Walker Howe famous quotes

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