"If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind."

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Source : George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

George Edward Woodberry

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“I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.”
“Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy and love, is the end of hearing sermons, and not merely to have our taste gratified by genius, eloquence and oratory.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 478, 1895.
“I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.”
“In my view the bundle theorist should say that when a bundle is located somewhere, there is an 'instance' of the bundle there. The instance is entirely constituted by the universals of the bundle. But the bundle and the instance are two distinct entities. Bundles of universals can be multiply located, but their instances cannot, and particulars are instances of a bundle of universals.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The hounds are perpetually at fault among the sweet-scented herbs and flowers that grow at the base of Etna.”

Source : John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.154
“The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 21, 2015
“On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.”
“I have only slipped away into the next room, I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. Call me by my familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used .... Play, smile, think of me .... All is well.”

Source : Henry Scott Holland, “Death Is Nothing At All”

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