Quotes with contemporaries

  • It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • William Faulkner Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Lynn Harold Hough It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.
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  • Barry Humphries Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Alex Cox One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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