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History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it (John Buchan Quotes)
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already (John Buchan Quotes)
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it (John Buchan Quotes)
I would be content with any job, however thankless, in any quarter, however remote, if I had the chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and a solitary place glad (John Buchan Quotes)
In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a God of its own infallibility (John Buchan Quotes)
Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead (John Buchan Quotes)
Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future (John Buchan Quotes)
Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth (John Buchan Quotes)
Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes (John Buchan Quotes)
There's a queer performance going on in the other world,' he said. 'it's unbelievable. I never dreamed of such a thing. I - I don't quite know how to put it, and I don't know how to explain it, but - but I am becoming aware that there are other beings - other minds - moving in space besides mine (John Buchan Quotes)
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness (John Buchan Quotes)
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences (John Buchan Quotes)
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there (John Buchan Quotes)
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them (John Buchan Quotes)
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves (John Buchan Quotes)
Time, they say, must the best of us capture, and travel and battle and gems and gold no more can kindle the ancient rapture, for even the youngest of hearts grows old (John Buchan Quotes)
I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man. Little I knew at the time how big the moment was with destiny, or how often that face seen in the fitful moonlight would haunt my sleep and disturb my waking hours (John Buchan Quotes)
Perfect love casteth out fear, the Bible says; but, to speak it reverently, so does perfect hate (John Buchan Quotes)
The vows we take in the holy place bind us till we are purged of them at Inanda's Kraal. Till then no blood must be shed and no flesh eaten. It was the fashion of our forefathers (John Buchan Quotes)
Last night I had looked into the heart of darkness, and the sight had terrified me. What part should I play in the great purification? Most likely that of the biblical scapegoat (John Buchan Quotes)
Supposing you knew - not by sight or by instinct, but by sheer intellectual knowledge, as I know the truth of a mathematical proposition - that what we call empty space was full, crammed. Not with lumps of what we call matter like hills and houses, but with things as real - as real to the mind (John Buchan Quotes)
I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality (John Buchan Quotes)
I mused upon the ironic fate which had compelled a mathematical genius to make his sole confidant of a philistine lawyer, and induced that lawyer to repeat it confusedly to an ignoramus at twilight on a Scotch hill (John Buchan Quotes)
This crowded world of space was perfectly real to him. How he had got to it I do not know. Perhaps his mind, dwelling constantly on the problem, had unsealed some atrophied cell and restored the old instinct. Anyhow, he was living his daily life with a foot in each world (John Buchan Quotes)
He never went mad in your sense. My dear fellow, you're very much wrong if you think there was anything pathological about him - then. The man was brilliantly sane. His mind was as keen as a keen sword. I couldn't understand him, but I could judge of his sanity right enough (John Buchan Quotes)
The law and the constitution are like a child's pants. They've got to be made wider and longer as the child grows so as to fit him. If they're kept too tight, he'll burst them; and if you're in a hurry and make them too big all at once, they'll trip him up (John Buchan Quotes)
Oh, I agree he went mad in the end. It is the only explanation. Something must have snapped in that fine brain, and he saw the little bit more which we call madness. Thank God, you and I are prosaic fellows (John Buchan Quotes)
I must get off for a bit or I'll bonnet Joggleberry or get up and propose a national monument to Guy Fawkes or something silly (John Buchan Quotes)
You don't know old Charles as I know him. He's got into a queer set, and there's no knowing what mischief he's up to. He's perfectly capable of starting a revolution in Armenia or somewhere merely to see how it feels like to be a revolutionary. That's the damned thing about the artistic temperament (John Buchan Quotes)
To be watchful, I decided, was my business. And I could not get rid of the feeling that I might soon have cause for all my vigilance (John Buchan Quotes)