Select Search
World Factbook
Roget's Int'l Thesaurus
Bartlett's Quotations
Respectfully Quoted
Fowler's King's English
Strunk's Style
Mencken's Language
Cambridge History
The King James Bible
Oxford Shakespeare
Gray's Anatomy
Farmer's Cookbook
Post's Etiquette
Brewer's Phrase & Fable
Bulfinch's Mythology
Frazer's Golden Bough
All Verse
Anthologies
Dickinson, E.
Eliot, T.S.
Frost, R.
Hopkins, G.M.
Keats, J.
Lawrence, D.H.
Masters, E.L.
Sandburg, C.
Sassoon, S.
Whitman, W.
Wordsworth, W.
Yeats, W.B.
All Nonfiction
Harvard Classics
American Essays
Einstein's Relativity
Grant, U.S.
Roosevelt, T.
Wells's History
Presidential Inaugurals
All Fiction
Shelf of Fiction
Ghost Stories
Short Stories
Shaw, G.B.
Stein, G.
Stevenson, R.L.
Wells, H.G.
Reference
>
Quotations
>
Respectfully Quoted
PREVIOUS
NEXT
CONTENTS
·
AUTHOR INDEX
·
KEYWORD INDEX
·
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations.
1989
.
NUMBER:
1295
AUTHOR:
John Ruskin (1819–1900)
QUOTATION:
Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
ATTRIBUTION:
Attributed to
JOHN RUSKIN.
Unverified.
SUBJECTS:
Past and future
CONTENTS
·
AUTHOR INDEX
·
KEYWORD INDEX
·
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
PREVIOUS
NEXT
Click
here
to shop the
Bartleby Bookstore
.
Welcome
·
Advertising
·
Terms of Use
· © 2009
Bartleby.com
