Top 75 Quotes by Sabine Baring-Gould

About Sabine Baring-Gould

These are some quotes by English author Sabine Baring-Gould Clergyman, who lived between January 28, 1834 and January 2, 1924.

Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.

Sabine Baring-Gould

About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.

Sabine Baring-Gould

Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.

Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.

Sabine Baring-Gould

The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.

The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.

Sabine Baring-Gould

Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.

Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.

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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.

The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.

Sabine Baring-Gould

History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.

Sabine Baring-Gould

In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.

In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.

Sabine Baring-Gould

Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.

Sabine Baring-Gould

A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.

Sabine Baring-Gould

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