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Ernest Poole

His Family

  • Albina Vasilyevahas quoted8 years ago
    "In their lives too we shall be there, the dim strong figures of the past.
  • Albina Vasilyevahas quoted8 years ago
    Surely this is death," he thought. After that he was alone. And presently from far away he heard the booming of a bell, deep and slow, sepulchral, as it measured off his life. Another silence followed, and this time it was more profound; and with a breathless awe he knew that all the people who had ever lived on earth were before him in the void to which he himself was drifting: people of all nations, of countless generations reaching back and back and back to the beginnings of mankind: the mightiest family of all, that had stumbled up through the ages, had slaved and starved and dreamed and died, had blindly hated, blindly killed, had raised up gods and idols and yearned for everlasting life, had laughed and played and danced along, had loved and mated, given birth, had endlessly renewed itself and handed on its heritage, had striven hungrily to learn, had groped its way in darkness, and after all its struggles had come now barely to the dawn
  • Albina Vasilyevahas quoted8 years ago
    "Humanity is still a child. Our parents are all people who have lived upon the earth—our children, all who are to come. And the dawn at last is breaking. The great day has just begun
  • Albina Vasilyevahas quoted8 years ago
    Humanity seems to me still a child—a child who needs to go to school
  • Albina Vasilyevahas quoted8 years ago
    "You will live on in our children's lives.
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