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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.


Simon Schama


#history #historical

Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.


Philippa Gregory


#fiction #henry-viii #historical-fiction #katherine #historical

And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.


David Housholder


#historical-fiction #spirituality #young-adult #historical

Yes, my boy, you are indeed much faster, bigger, and stronger than me and an altogether superior speciman of God's creation, but I have seen your like before. Only one of us can be master, and it won't be you.


Emery Lee


#historical-fiction #historical-romance #historical

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.


Aberjhani


#dreams #faith #inspiration #inspirational #metaphysics

Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold sober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.


Diana Wynne Jones


#castle #drunk #howl #sober #escape

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.


Dean Stanley


#christian #extraordinary #extraordinary things #ordinary #ordinary things

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.


George Orwell


#political-satire #quthoritarianism #russian-revolution #virtue

For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.


Dr. Seuss


#political

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.


Mark Twain


#politics #political






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