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Category: John Buchan

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

Peace, Joy, Two

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

Fishing, Charm, Elusive

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

snobs, snobbishness

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

He disliked emotion not because he felt lightly but because he felt deeply.

The secret belongs only to the Maker of good and faithful dogs.

adventure, dogs-loyalty, unknowable

The eyes were of a color which he could never decide on, afterwards when he told the story he used to say they were the color of everything in Spring.

color, eyes, spring

It is a melancholy fact which exponents of democracy must face that, while all men may be on a level in the eyes of the State, they will continue in fact to be preposterously unequal.

democracy, equality

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

bravery, fortitude, knives, loyalty, men, murder, richard-hannay

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

greatness, leadership

The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.