Samuel Eliot Morison/early Life 1887%e2%80%931912

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    “The LORD forbid that I should raise my hand against the LORD’s anointed; but now take the spear that is at his head, and the water jar, and let us go.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 26:11.

    David, who is unwilling to kill king Saul.

    “In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.”
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    “In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread”; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”
    —Andy Warhol (c. 1928–1987)