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Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time.
Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time.
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.
While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a read more
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.