"Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return."

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Source : George Stillman Hillard (1853). “Six Months in Italy”, p.20

George Stillman Hillard

#Art Quotes #Rome Quotes #Return Quotes

“Not all dangers are obvious.”
“The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.”
“I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. I have a lot more to drink. For that reason, the political numbers game will be played. I know the rules of their game now and how to play it.”
“For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.”

Source : Martin Chemnitz (1971). “Examination of the Council of Trent”
“...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
“Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances”
“Nobody has the right to shield any idea as so sacred it canâ€™t be challenged. ... Almost all human progress is driven by people who stood up and said â€˜I disagreeâ€™ with this idea that society at the time considered to be the most precious.â€™”
“History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.”

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