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One fourth of life is intelligible, the other three-fourths is unintelligible darkness; and our first duty is to cultivate the habit of not looking round the corner.

William Hale White

As I got older I became aware of the folly of this perpetual reaching after the future, and of drawing from to-morrow, and from to-morrow only, a reason for the joyfulness of to-day.

William Hale White

Men should not be too curious in analysing and condemning any means which nature devises to save them from themselves, whether it be coins, old books, curiosities, butterflies, or fossils.

William Hale White

The great beauty of astronomy is not what is incomprehensible in it, but its comprehensibility — its geometrical exactitude.

William Hale White

The sun, we say, is the cause of heat, but the heat is the sun, hence on this window-ledge.

William Hale White

William Hale White

William Hale White

Born: December 22, 1831

Died: March 14, 1913 (aged 81)

Bio: William Hale White, known by his pseudonym Mark Rutherford, was a British writer and civil servant.

Known for:

The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford
The revolution in Tanner's Lane
Clara Hopgood
Catharine Furze
Mark Rutherford's deliverance

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