William Macneile Dixon Quotes

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Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

William Macneile Dixon

There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."

William Macneile Dixon

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

William Macneile Dixon

Everything lies within space, and everything happens within time.

William Macneile Dixon

Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

William Macneile Dixon

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.

William Macneile Dixon

William Macneile Dixon

William Macneile Dixon

Born: 1866

Died: 1946 (aged 80)

Bio: William Macneile Dixon was a British author and academic.

Known for:

The human situation (1937)
English epic and heroic poetry (1912)
The fleets behind the fleet (1917)
The British navy at war (1917)
The English Parnassus

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