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But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.


Seamus Heaney


#based #brutality #change #citizen #destructive

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.


Charles Sturt


#causes #colony #condition #enterprise #farmers

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.


Lafcadio Hearn


#every #greatest #mankind #modern #morality

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.


Lafcadio Hearn


#closely #comes #finnish #form #interest

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.


Lafcadio Hearn


#advantage #being #better #circumstances #civilized

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.


Lafcadio Hearn


#brought #changes #course #efforts #generations

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.


Lafcadio Hearn


#being #earth #greater #happiness #heaven

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.


Lafcadio Hearn


#contemporary #ethical #literature #shown #signs

I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.


Thomas Hearns


#came #god #i #i came #knew

I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.


Christina Hendricks


#always #anyone #cry #discreet #else