Katharine Lee Bates Quotes

American - Author | August 12, 1859 - March 28, 1929

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

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It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

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Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

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The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

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The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

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LifeCityCommerceLiverpoolShops

Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of Oxfordshire.

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LondonHimMustMadeFamiliar

Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are!

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ChildrenPeopleMotherhoodIgnorant

A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them.

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GreatBestReadingLiteratureTaste

Warwick Castle, built of the very centuries, cannot be expected to alter with time's 'brief hours and weeks' - at least, with so few of them as fall to one poor mortal's lot. From visit to visit, I find it as unchanged as the multiplication table.

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