"No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God."

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Source : Sir John Robert Seeley (1866). “Ecce Homo: A Survey of the Life and Work of Jesus Christ”, p.330

John Robert Seeley

#Wall Quotes #Men Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“A woman's heart is much like the moon, always changing but always has a man in it.”
“I have always believed and promoted the fact that education and access to the knowledge society involves lifelong learning.”
“I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create something more perfect and more lasting than the life experience from which it came?”

Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr
“If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.”

Source : Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.192, Book Tree
“There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.”
“Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.”
“I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Warped with satisfactions and terrors, woofed with too many ambiguities and too few certainties, life can be lived best not when we have the answers - because we will never have those - but when we know enough to live it right out to the edges, edges sometimes marked by other people, sometimes showing only our own footprints.”

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