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Quotations We are often asked the source of Lawrence quotations. Here are some of the most frequent.Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them. Actually, also, under the very odd conditions of Arabia, your practical work will not be as good as, perhaps, you think it is.
'Twenty-Seven
Articles', Arab Bulletin, 20 August 1917 All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. Seven Pillars of Wisdom You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That's the feeling.
Letter to Eric Kennington, 6 May 1935 I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands
The opening lines of the dedication to Seven Pillars of Wisdom The sword also means clean-ness and death
Letter to Eric Kennington, 27 October 1922 Incorporated by Eric Kennington in the crossed-daggers design on the cover of the first public edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1935. |
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