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From self alone expect applause.
— Marion LeRoy Burton
A craft can only have meaning when it serves a spiritual way.
— Titus Burckhardt
History is still in large measure poetry to me.
— Jacob Burckhardt
It is the historian's function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.
— Jacob Burckhardt
Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.
— Jacob Burckhardt
The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.
— Jacob Burckhardt
There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.
— Jacob Burckhardt
True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.
— Jacob Burckhardt
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
— Jacob Burckhardt
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The bridge was hollow, and a hollow was inside the bridge.
— Ransom Riggs
Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
— Victor Hugo
Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.
— Jacob Burckhardt
Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.
— Jacob Burckhardt
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness ... Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.
— Jacob Burckhardt
Burckhardt fumbled through his notes. "Dakin and
— Elizabeth Peters
I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.
— Poppy Z. Brite
