George Moore
George Moore
George Fletcher Moorewas a prominent early settler in colonial Western Australia, and "one the key figures in early Western Australia's ruling elite". He conducted a number of exploring expeditions; was responsible for one of the earliest published records of the language of the Australian Aborigines of the Perth area; and was the author of Diary of Ten Years Eventful Life of an Early Settler in Western Australia...
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth10 December 1798
poor poverty-and-the-poor
The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
change daily destroy habits lose moment pass reality routine slight sufficient
A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world about us; the moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine
glad help
I'm glad to see that we can help, but I want them to help themselves,
smash standing
He was standing like he was going to smash a bug,
cause hurts people
It hurts their cause when people say that kind of thing,
everybody however known nobody
No man, however great, is known to everybody and no man, however solitary, is known to nobody
blow drastic entire industry
It's about as drastic as you can imagine, ... It's a real blow to the entire industry and it will probably be 20, 25 years before we get back to a sense of normalcy.
acting art lowest therefore
Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.
standpoint supply wood
It's detrimental from the standpoint of wood supply inventory,
following genius stray stupidity talent wanders
Genius and stupidity never stray from their respective paths; talent wanders to and fro, following every light.
heard
Probably everything you've heard is true, ... but we've got to put that into context.
circle dogma drawn draws hardly mind round
The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.
great night picking seems students sudden
All of a sudden now, every night seems to be picking up and picking up so we're happy, it's great to have the students back.
expense god government great impossible
God is a great expense but government would be impossible without him