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Quote by William Morley Punshon

“Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?”

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William Morley Punshon (May 29, 1824 - April 14, 1881) was a British historian and archaeologist known for his research into ancient civilizations. His career category is unknown due to limited information. more

“All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with every eddy of its tide. A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.”

Men World Way Purpose Conditions Wave Over It Purpose Of Life Steady Tides Indispensable Disadvantages Unstable Double Minded

Author:William Morley Punshon

“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”

“He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.”

World Looks Change Regard Affair Firm Stable Mistaken

Author:Francesco Guicciardini

“There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]”

Humans Evil Males Affair

Author:Francesco Guicciardini

“The introduction of the Christian religion into the world has produced an incalculable change in history. There had previously been only a history of nations--there is now a history of mankind; and the idea of an education of human nature as a whole.--an education the work of Jesus Christ Himself--is become like a compass for the historian, the key of history, and the hope of nations.”

World Humans Ideas Whole Christian Jesus Nations Christ Christianity Mankind Human Nature Keys Jesus Christ Historian Compass Introduction Changes In History

Book:History of the Great Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in Germany, Switzerland, Etc

Source: History of the Great Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in Germany, Switzerland, Etc

“We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day.”

Men Fighting Honor Battle Being True Patriotic Heroic True Man

Author:David McMurtrie Gregg

“Never deny the babies their Christmas! It is the shining seal set upon, a year of happiness. Let them believe in Santa Claus, or St. Nicholas; or Kriss Kringle, or whatever name the jolly Dutch saint bears in your religion.”

Years Believe Names Baby Bears Shining Saint Deny Christmas Santa Seals Dutch Santa Claus Jolly Believe In Santa St Nicholas

Author:Mary Virginia Terhune

“Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her behalf, and agitations for her advancement and developmentthan for the abolition of negro slavery in the United States.”

Needs Should States United United States Movement Letters Slavery Liberation Behalf Advancement Abolition Agitation Specialty

Author:Mary Virginia Terhune

“Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding compensation.”

Art Sorrow Findings Inevitable Exposed Compensation

Author:Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis

“Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.”

Men Humans Virtue Honest Dangerous Human Nature Weak Dancer Rope Equilibrium Honest Man

Author:Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis

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