19 ordspråk av John Buchan
John Buchan
John Buchan föddes den
August 26th 1875 och dog den 11 February
1940 - best known for his swift-paced adventure stories.
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But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay?
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But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay?
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
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Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
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He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
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He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.
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Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
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Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
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The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.
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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
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The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
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There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
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