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John Lothrop Motley

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

Paper, Barriers, How

John Lothrop Motley

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds not stones are the true monuments of the great.

John Lothrop Motley

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

John Lothrop Motley

The finger of the atheists’ own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.

atheism, divinity, god, reason, the-soul, the-universe

John Lothrop Motley

The finger of the atheists’ own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.

atheism, divinity, god, reason, the-soul, the-universe