3 Quotes & Sayings By Henry Dircks

Henry Dircks was a prominent American poet, teacher and editor. He published over forty volumes of poetry and fiction. He is best known for his poems about the Civil War. His work often focused on themes of love, war, and politics.

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Of what use can our labour be, when the labours we record are in themselves entirely useless? Henry Dircks
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There is something lamentable, degrading, and almost insane in pursuing the visionary schemes of past ages with dogged determination, in paths of learning which have been investigated by superior minds, and with which such adventurous persons are totally unacquainted. The history of Perpetual Motion is a history of the fool-hardiness of either half-learned, or totally ignorant persons. Henry Dircks