Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.
The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. - William Macneile Dixon
The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
- William Macneile Dixon
All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, ast… - William Macneile Dixon
All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, ast…
If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment. - William Macneile Dixon
If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.
Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings. - William Macneile Dixon
Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.
To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart. - William Macneile Dixon
To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind." - William Macneile Dixon
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged … - William Macneile Dixon
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged …
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation… - William Macneile Dixon
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation…
Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found. - William Macneile Dixon
Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.
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