Samuel E. Morison quote: "Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances."

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself ...
SAMUEL E. MORISON

Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
SAMUEL E. MORISON

Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
SAMUEL E. MORISON

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true ...
SAMUEL E. MORISON

I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
SAMUEL E. MORISON

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel ...
SAMUEL E. MORISON

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of histori...
SAMUEL E. MORISON

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not o...
SAMUEL E. MORISON

Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one m...
SAMUEL E. MORISON

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputatio...
SAMUEL E. MORISON

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto acc...
SAMUEL E. MORISON

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of ...
SAMUEL E. MORISON

Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were sla...
SAMUEL E. MORISON

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond t...
SAMUEL E. MORISON

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
SAMUEL E. MORISON

[President Roosevelt won international recognition, orchestrating much of the negotiations himself f...
SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON

He (Columbus) enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of ...
SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON

The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
ELTING E. MORISON

For a new fount to be successful it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.
STANLEY MORISON

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS

he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS

and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be d...
H. E. E. HAYES

I never liked you, and I always will.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these ...
SAMUEL PEPYS

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
SAMUEL PEPYS

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our conditi...
SAMUEL PEPYS

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
SAMUEL PEPYS

My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. M...
SAMUEL MORSE

What God hath wrought?
SAMUEL MORSE

My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. T...
SAMUEL LOVER

Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman...
SAMUEL LOVER

To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former j...
SAMUEL LOVER

How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might,...
SAMUEL LOVER

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
SAMUEL LOVER

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. ...
SAMUEL LOVER

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
SAMUEL LOVER

What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which ...
SAMUEL LOVER

I'm not a very typical singer.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
SAMUEL LARSEN

The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're ju...
SAMUEL LARSEN

I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
SAMUEL LARSEN

There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achiev...
SAMUEL LARSEN

I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the...
SAMUEL LARSEN

I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously bef...
SAMUEL LARSEN

You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with ...
SAMUEL LARSEN

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we'...
SAMUEL LARSEN

Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
SAMUEL LARSEN

On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense her...
SAMUEL LARSEN

The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I r...
SAMUEL LARSEN

One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're hav...
SAMUEL LARSEN

I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
SAMUEL LARSEN

Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play ...
SAMUEL LARSEN

Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
SAMUEL LARSEN

There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
SAMUEL LARSEN

The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
SAMUEL LARSEN

I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV...
SAMUEL LARSEN

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of i...
SAMUEL HORSLEY

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discove...
SAMUEL HORSLEY

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
SAMUEL HOPKINS

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
SAMUEL HOPKINS

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, ...
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a w...
SAMUEL GOMPERS

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
SAMUEL GOMPERS

We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to dem...
SAMUEL GOMPERS

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice a...
SAMUEL GOMPERS

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liber...
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal r...
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where yo...
SAMUEL FULLER

You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. Th...
SAMUEL FULLER

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what y...
SAMUEL FULLER

When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of th...
SAMUEL FULLER

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
SAMUEL FULLER

Surviving is the only glory in war.
SAMUEL FULLER

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE

Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE

Death and the dice level all distinctions.
SAMUEL FOOTE

Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. S...
SAMUEL DASH

I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I migh...
SAMUEL DASH

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.
SAMUEL DASH

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if ...
SAMUEL DASH

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wan...
SAMUEL DASH

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay...
SAMUEL DASH

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its out...
SAMUEL DASH

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and infor...
SAMUEL DASH

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a di...
SAMUEL DASH

We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
SAMUEL DANIEL

The wise are above books.
SAMUEL DANIEL

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
SAMUEL DANIEL

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
SAMUEL DANIEL

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out ...
SAMUEL DANIEL

The stars that have most glory have no rest.
SAMUEL DANIEL

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
SAMUEL DANIEL

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace an...
SAMUEL CHASE

Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
SAMUEL CHASE

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and den...
SAMUEL CHASE

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio b...
SAMUEL BUTLER

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.

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Samuel E. Morison

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.

Samuel E. Morison

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