Бакен, Джон, 1-й барон Твидсмур цитаты
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Джон Ба́кен, 1-й барон Твидсмур — британский государственный деятель, издатель и писатель, пятнадцатый генерал-губернатор Канады с 1935 по 1940 годы, автор романов, в частности, «39 ступеней». Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Август 1875 – 11. Февраль 1940   •   Другие имена Barone John Buchan
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“He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.”

Pilgrim's Way (1940), p. 58
Memory Hold-The-Door (1940)

“I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support.”

A play on words commonly used referring to vagrants or paupers as having "no visible means of support" financially, speaking to the Law Society of Upper Canada, (21 February 1936); published in Canadian Occasions (1940), p. 201. Buchan's source for this definition remains unknown. The witticism was repeated by Harry Emerson Fosdick in his On Being a Real Person (1943), ch. 1, with due acknowledgement to Buchan, and was again used by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in Look magazine (December 14, 1955). The credit for this line is therefore often wrongly given to Fosdick or to Sheen. Credit has also been given to the conductor Walter Damrosch (1862-1950).
Canadian Occasions (1940)

“What can stand against loyalty? It is the faith that moves mountains.”

Источник: Midwinter (1923), Ch. X

“I think a man cannot strive wholeheartedly with an enemy unless he have much in common with him, and as the strife goes on he gets liker.”

John Buchan книга The Path of the King

Источник: The Path of the King (1921), Ch. VIII "The Hidden City"

“To be watchful, I decided, was my business. And I could not get rid of the feeling that I might soon have cause for all my vigilance.”

John Buchan книга The Power-House

Источник: The Power-House (1916), Ch. 1 "Beginning of the Wild-Goose Chase"

“Truth's like a dollar-piece, it's got two sides, and both are wanted to make it good currency.”

John Buchan книга The Path of the King

Источник: The Path of the King (1921), Ch. XIV "The End of the Road", I

“The best prayers have often more groans than words.”

This has also been attributed to Buchan, but is again from John Bunyan, Discourse on Prayer.
Misattributed

“I must get off for a bit or I'll bonnet Joggleberry or get up and propose a national monument to Guy Fawkes or something silly.”

John Buchan книга The Power-House

Источник: The Power-House (1916), Ch. 1 "Beginning of the Wild-Goose Chase"

“We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.”

Address to the people of Canada on the coronation of George VI (12 May 1937)

“Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.”

This has similarly been attributed to Buchan, but is actually a misrendering of a sentence from the first paragraph of John Bunyan, Discourse on Prayer. Bunyan's original sentence reads: "It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled."
Misattributed