"In one of Milton's sonnets is a famous line which is commonly classed among the noblest verses of the English language: — "They also serve, who only… - Henry Adams
"In one of Milton's sonnets is a famous line which is commonly classed among the noblest verses of the English language: — "They also serve, who only stand and wait.
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Henry Adams
Henry Brooks Adams (16 February 1838 – 27 March 1918) was a U.S. historian, journalist, novelist and educator. He was the great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams and son of Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
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Life is a narrow valley, and the roads run close together
No honest historian can take part with — or against — the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should be merely a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.
The outburst of the first crusade was splendid even in a military sense, but it was great beyond comparison in its reflexion in architecture, ornament, poetry, color, religion and philosophy. Its men were astonishing, and its women were worth all the rest.
