"For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must sacrifice to no God but Truth; he must neglect all else; his sole rule and unerring guide is this - to think not of those who are listening to him now, but of the yet unborn who shall seek his converse."

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Source : Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

Lucian

#Sacrifice Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.”
“Anything's possible, you gotta dream like you never seen obstacles.”

Source : Song: The Autograph, Album: Friday Night Lights, 2010
“We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.”
“Real divorce takes place without a decree ...”
“Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.”

Source : W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa”
“A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to be creative on a finite level, should certainly have more understanding of his responsibility to treat God's creation with sensitivity, and should develop his talents to do something to beautify his little spot on the earth's surface.”

Source : Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”
“I could have kisses like that for the rest of my life. Kisses that don't know who I am. Kisses that make me feel more and less than what I am. But my finger tap tap taps on my leg and reminds me that I am not who Adam thinks I am, and it makes me want to cry. It's not that I don't deserve his kiss. It's that the person I am can never really share a life, a soul, with the person he is.”

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