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“When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay”
John Taliaferro
“When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay”
John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt“This beach I voyage on leads me through the earth's immortal consistencies. Each form I encounter obeys the principles of perfection and trial, a timelessness in the making. The proportions of truth are at hand. Existence is celebrated in a splinter of driftwood, worn by wind-driven sand into the shape of an arrow. The onshore waves jostle each other, busy with their eternal changing, mixing crab shells, sand grains, and fish bones together. The trim little shorebirds feeding at the water's edge are acutely aware of one another, under the light and shadow leaning and drifting over all awareness. Wither own mysteries behind their beady eyes, their quick, advantageous movements, they follow the great, unifying sea." ~ John Hay. Bird of Light.”
John Hay, The Bird of Light“Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt”
John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt“John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.”
John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt“John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.”
John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt“In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay”
John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt“I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.”
John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt“John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.”
John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt“Henry Adams observes that John Hay has the ability to take the world as a whole rather than pulling it to pieces in criticism. He also observes that, in the routine of a stressful job, this perspective is challenged”
John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt“Mother Nature continues in motion while your mind is segmented with probabilities. Remembering your night dreams shows exactly this - fleeting scenes of experience with nothing in between. Dee-anne Hayes”
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