4 Quotes & Sayings By Hv Morton

H.V. Morton was born in Warwickshire, England, in 1876. He died in London on December 2, 1953. His life was spent in the service of the State, first as a medical officer attached to the British Army of the Rhine during World War I, then as chief of the Venereal Disease Control Department of the War Office during World War II Read more

At this time he founded The Society of Medical Officers for Controlling Venereal Diseases (SOMCVD) which became the Royal College for Controlling Venereal Diseases (RCCD), an independent national college for sexual medicine. He wrote numerous works on venereal disease and its control including Sex Education for Modern Youth, The Facts about Venereal Diseases, and The Prevention of Venereal Disease by Hygiene.

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There comes a moment in all travel when you know that you have really started. It may be weeks before you start or weeks after you have started; it is a spiritual emotion, a turning towards the future with an eager heart... H.V. Morton
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I gave way to a wave of home-sickness that almost shames me now when I recollect it. I find it impossible in cold blood, and at this distance, to put into words the longing that shook me. I have forgotten the pain in the neck, but never will I forget the pain in my heart. H.V. Morton
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All good knights, pilgrims, sons in search of fortune, seekers after truth, and plain ordinary fools, turn towards the city they have left and take farewell according to their nature. This is a full moment in all journeying, the time when girths are tightened in preparation for the miles that lie ahead. H.V. Morton