"Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated."

-- James Buchan

#Real Quotes #Losing Quotes #Humiliation Quotes

“Anyone who has not rowed in a really close boatrace cannot comprehend the level of pain.”

Source : "True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny".
“The Word of God and the Spirit of God are enough for the people of God to enjoy and spread the worship of God.”
“Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.”
“You can lose yourself in repetitionâ€”quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.”
“The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“Someone has said that even criticism is better than silence. I don't agree to this. Criticism can be very harmful unless it comes from a master; and in spite of the fact that we have hundreds of critics these days, it is one of the most difficult of professions.”
“If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.”
“History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.”

Source : G.M. Trevelyan (1949). “CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS”

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