![]() ![]() In 1903 “Wilshire’s Magazine” based in New York printed a speech by Elbert Anderson Young who was President of the National Credit Men’s Association. 1892, Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature, Compiled by John Bartlett, Ninth Edition, Section: Pliny the … Continue reading The remark from Pliny the Elder caught the attention of the editor John Bartlett who included it in the 1892 edition of his enduringly famous compilation of “Familiar Quotations”. Here are additional selected citations in chronological order. What so inconceivable as the recovery of the world’s history prior to man’s creation but, indeed is not everything impossible until it is done? and the history of man himself, though so much less inconceivable, also an impossibility until it has been accomplished? Yet all the while, the geological record lay there open before him, awaiting God’s appointed time. The author employed the saying in the form of a rhetorical question: 1862, Prehistoric Man: Researches into the Origin of Civilisation in the Old and the New World by Daniel Wilson (Professor of History and English Literature in University College, Toronto), Volume 1 … Continue reading Information could be reconstructed about the nature of Earth before the appearance of mankind. In 1862 the book “Prehistoric Man: Researches into the Origin of Civilisation in the Old and the New World” was published, and the author, Professor Daniel Wilson, commented on the remarkable insights available through the study of the geological record. Indeed what is there that does not appear marvellous, when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible, until they have been actually effected? Crane of Tufts University, Book Title: Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, Book Authors: John Bostock and H.T. … Continue reading Riley (Late Scholar of Clare Hall, Cambridge), Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 1: Man, Quote , … Continue reading Website: Perseus Digital Library, Editor-in-Chief of Digital Library: Gregory R. Boldface has been added to excerpts: 1855, The Natural History of Pliny, Author: Pliny the Elder, Translator: John Bostock and H. A statement that matched this notion was included in the encyclopedic work called “Naturalis Historia” (Natural History) which was written by Pliny the Elder who died in AD 79. Sometimes an event or achievement appears to be impossible, and only the actual occurrence of the event is enough to dispel the misconception. Details for this citation are given further below. ![]() Hence, the saying was linked to him for at least a dozen years before his death in 2013. The earliest attribution to Mandela located by QI appeared in an Australian newspaper in 2001. Quote Investigator: QI has not yet found this statement in a book or speech by Nelson Mandela. The words are usually attributed to the activist, statesman, and Nobel Prize winner Nelson Mandela, but I have not been able to find a good citation. It always seems impossible, until it is done. Goddard? Robert Heinlein? Norton Juster? Paul Eldridge?ĭear Quote Investigator: Politicians, journalists, pundits, and self-help authors are fond of the following inspirational expression: Nelson Mandela? Pliny the Elder? Daniel Wilson? Elbert Anderson Young? Robert H. ![]()
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