Top 22 William H Prescott Quotes
#2. The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.
William H. Prescott
#3. It is just as honorable ... to dig in the dirt as to dig into books. The mind can do its best work only when th body has been developed equally well.
William Warren Prescott
#4. Is it him?" Dad asked. "Did he get you into trouble?"
"Not me," Shane said. "I've just got that kind of face.
Rachel Caine
#6. John Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule that oppositions do not win elections, governments lose them.
William Rees-Mogg
#7. People will try to label you not good enough, too slow, too old, too many mistakes. You can't stop negative comments or prevent negative labels, but you can choose to not let them hold you back.
Joel Osteen
#8. To right, the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from a-far, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star.
Jack Jones
#9. No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it.
William H. Prescott
#11. It's better to have nothing and have everything than if you have everything with nothing
Miguel El Portugues
#12. All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.
-from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)
George Michael Sinclair Kennedy
#13. Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.
William H. Prescott
#14. Just as hate can follow you through your life, love can lead you.
Val Edward Simone
#17. Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the routine is rigorously proscribed by law, the law, and not the man, must have the credit of the conduct.
William H. Prescott
#18. Some people learn by the mistakes of others, but most of us are the others.
William Prescott
#19. If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.
William Prescott
#20. The preaching of the gospel is not to persuade people to agree with me in my theological views. The preaching of the gospel so far as I am concerned, is to bring people into personal association with that person with whom I have fellowship.
William Warren Prescott
#21. In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
William Prescott
