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John Buchan
Scottish
Politician
About the author
Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
John Buchan,
Scottish
Politician
#Heart
#Man
The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.
John Buchan,
Scottish
Politician
#God
#Years
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
John Buchan,
Scottish
Politician
#Time
#Education
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan,
Scottish
Politician
#Past
#Future
#Debt
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
John Buchan,
Scottish
Politician
#May
#Peace
#Happiness
#Joy
Without humility there can be no humanity.
John Buchan,
Scottish
Politician
#Humanity
#Humility
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
John Buchan,
Scottish
Politician
#Men
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
John Buchan,
Scottish
Politician
#Humanity
#Leadership
#Greatness
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
John Buchan,
Scottish
Politician
#Hope
#Pursuit
#Charm
#Fishing
The best prayers have often more groans than words.
John Buchan,
Scottish
Politician
#Words
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
John Buchan,
Scottish
Politician
#God
#Heart
#Soul
#Prayer
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
John Buchan,
Scottish
Politician
#Emotion
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
John Buchan,
Scottish
Politician
#Life
#Civilization
#Folk
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.
John Buchan,
Scottish
Politician
#Earth
#Civilization
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
John Buchan,
Scottish
Politician
#Fear
#State
#Peace