T. H. White Quotes - Page 2

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• The best thing for being sad, is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails ... Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

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  Being Sad, Looks, Failing

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• You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover’s soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it.

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  Giving Up, Drinking, Heart

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.

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  Stupidity, Ghost, Sin

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.195, Penguin

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• Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves. It is hopeless doing things for people - it is often very dangerous to do things at all - and the only thing worth doing for the race is to increase its stock of ideas. Then, if you make available a larger stock, people are at liberty to help themselves from out of it. By this process the means of improvement is offered, to be accepted or rejected freely, and there is a faint hope of progress in the course of millennia. Such is the business of the philosopher, to open new ideas. It is not his business to impose them on people.

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  Mean, Race, Ideas

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• There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws which are constant. It has no rules. Only, in the long years which bring women to the middle of life, a sense of balance develops...when she is beginning to hate her used body, she suddenly finds that she can do it. She can go on living.

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  Hate, Years, Law

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• Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?

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  Consciousness, Reason, Ends

  T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.64, University of Texas Press

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• The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.

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  Destiny, Men, Individualistic

  T.H. White (1988). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.124, University of Texas Press

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• Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.

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  Giving, Confusion, Hatred

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

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  Hands, People

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.285, Penguin

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• The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.

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  Destiny, Men, Divides

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.203, Penguin

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• "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "The Book of Merlyn". Book by T. H. White, 1977.

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• It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.

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  Tragedy, Innocence, Enough

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.276, Penguin

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• But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.

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  Weapons

  T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.72, University of Texas Press

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• God is love, the parson whined.
  Yes, and is he also blind?

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  Blind, God Is Love

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• It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by microbes, which are too small to be appreciated.

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  Men, Dragons, Humanity

  T.H. White (1988). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.82, University of Texas Press

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• The weather behaved itself. In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In the summer it was beautifully hot for no less than four months, and, if it did rain just enough for agricultural purposes, they managed to arrange it so that it rained while you were in bed. In the autumn the leaves flamed and rattled before the west winds, tempering their sad adieu with glory. And in the winter, which was confined by statute to two months, the snow lay evenly, three feet thick, but never turned into slush.

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  Summer, Spring, Rain

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.120, Penguin

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• Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds

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  War, Noble, Feuds

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.203, Penguin

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• The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his eye. There was a faint bluish furrow down each side of his nose, and this led to the eye sockets, and surrounded them in a pensive shade. The eyes, circled by this sad and beautiful darkness, were so sorrowful, lonely, gentle and nobly tragic, that they killed all other emotions except love.

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  Beautiful, Lonely, Eye

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• The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.

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  Race, Age, Communist

  T.H. White (1988). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.124, University of Texas Press

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• Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

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  Children, Comforting, Degradation

  T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.12, University of Texas Press

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• Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?

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  Purpose, Belief, Cunning

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.214, Penguin

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• If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as climb there

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  People, Heaven, Arthur

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• Aviators live by hours, not by days.

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  Aviation, Flight, Hours

  "England Have My Bones". Book by T. H. White, 1936.

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• Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

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  Education, Learning, Looks

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.162, Penguin

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• It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

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  People, Principles, Needs

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.302, Penguin

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