T. H. White Quotes

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• The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.

  T. H. White

  Sadness, Being Sad, Best Things

  "The Sword in the Stone". Book by T. H. White, 1963.

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• We cannot build the future by avenging the past.

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  Past, Avenging

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.

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  Courage, People, Mind

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.562, Penguin

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• The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.

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  Funny, Patience, Humor

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• The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

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  Destiny, Men, Nuts

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.203, Penguin

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• We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become politicians; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly out-numbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off behind the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare.

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  Wise, Philosophy, Optimistic

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• You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.161, Penguin

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• Might does not make right! Right makes right!

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  Doe, Might, Might Makes Right

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• Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.

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  Love, Inspirational, Heart

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.192, Penguin

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• Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

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  Dies

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get.

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  Beautiful, Giving, World

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.420, Penguin

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• Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.

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  Reason, Force

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.205, Penguin

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• I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable…has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe.

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  Men, Diversity, Imagine

  T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.68, University of Texas Press

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• Only fools want to be great.

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  Want, Fool

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.159, Penguin

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• Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

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  Inspirational, Education, Dream

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

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  Graduation, Self, Essence

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.40, Penguin

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• In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

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  War, Fighting, Order

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• If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

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  People, Perfection, Knows

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.

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  Men, Soon Enough, Slaughter

  "The Book of Merlyn". Book by T. H. White, 1977.

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• I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn

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  Anarchist, Sensible, Persons

  T.H. White (1988). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.124, University of Texas Press

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• Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.

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  Beautiful, Simple, Would Be

  T. H. White (1983). “The Maharajah and Other Stories”, Berkley

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• Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble. Why should not God have come to the earth as an earth-worm? There are a great many more worms than men, and they do a great deal more good.

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  Believe, Humble, Animal

  T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.30, University of Texas Press

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• Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.

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  Giving, Confusion, Hatred

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?

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  Consciousness, Reason, Ends

  T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.64, University of Texas Press

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• There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a wicked species. They are so wicked that they must not be allowed. When you can be perfectly certain that the other man started them, then is the time when you might have a sort of duty to stop them.

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  War, Fighting, Men

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.204, Penguin

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