Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit.
Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxi… - Amelia B. Edwards
Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxi…
- Amelia B. Edwards
Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure. - Amelia B. Edwards
Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.
It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities. - Amelia B. Edwards
It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.
The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation. - Amelia B. Edwards
The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's… - Amelia B. Edwards
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's…
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more re… - Amelia B. Edwards
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more re…
Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the gard… - Amelia B. Edwards
Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the gard…
between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship. - Amelia B. Edwards
between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.
Every reformation ruins somebody. - Amelia B. Edwards
Every reformation ruins somebody.
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