Odell Shepard Quotes

#1. It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

Odell Shepard

#2. The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the god and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for.

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#3. If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.

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#4. For what I give, not what I take,
For battle, not for victory,
My prayer of thanks I make.

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#5. There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

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#6. One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.

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