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That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.
— Goldwin Smith
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
— Goldwin Smith
Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.
— Goldwin Smith
There are no great scripts - just great films.
— Malcolm McDowell
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Personality is lower than partiality.
— Goldwin Smith
The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
— Ann Brashares
Be annoyed and sin not" ~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
— Goldwin Smith
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
— Goldwin Smith
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
— Goldwin Smith
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
— Robert Peel
We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.
— Goldwin Smith
The old woman was a witch shadow - hair like matted spiderwebs, hooded 'round darkness of features, eyes like glittering jewels.
— Frank Herbert
I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.
— Goldwin Smith
The father of confederation is deadlock.
— Goldwin Smith
Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.'
— Goldwin Smith
The Spirit never just flows in us; he always flows through us so that others might flourish as well.
— John Ortberg
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.
— Goldwin Smith
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.
— Goldwin Smith
The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.
— Goldwin Smith
Above all nations is humanity.
— Goldwin Smith
We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
— Goldwin Smith
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
— Goldwin Smith
