I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom.

Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endur — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to — Frank Herbert, Dune

The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome. — Robert J. Allison, Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies

All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home. — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Most people in this world are a continuity, very few become an opportunity and the rarest of them all, evolve to be a po — Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya

America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin — H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900

(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained — Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity — Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and pre — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

$It is as if the stuff of which we are made were totally transparent and therefore imperceptible and as if the only appearances of which we can be aware are cracks and planes of fracture in that transp — Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature$

Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of others. — Genereux Philip

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