Eric Rucker Eddison Professions : Civil servant Born : November 24, 1882 Died : August 18, 1945 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Eric Rucker Eddison The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time. Eric Rucker Eddison nature ambition wisdom He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world. Eric Rucker Eddison powerful kings fear The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone Eric Rucker Eddison harvest purpose world Can a woman not keep her lover without she study to always please him with pleasure? Pew! Then let her give up the game. Or shall my lover think with pleasing of me to win me indeed? Faugh! He payeth me then; doth he think I am for hire? Eric Rucker Eddison giving-up winning thinking The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not. Eric Rucker Eddison memorial past years Similar Authors Claude Gueant civil-servant Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell civil-servant All Authors
