951 private quotes tagged history

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” — Plato

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“De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.” — Aldous Huxley

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“To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.” — Albert Camus

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“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.” — John F. Kennedy

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“God cannot alter the past, though historians can.” — Samuel Butler

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“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.” — George Eliot

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“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.” — George S. Patton

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“A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.” — George S. Patton

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“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.” — John F. Kennedy

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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” — Aldous Huxley

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“I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.” — Robert Frost

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“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.” — John F. Kennedy

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“For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.” — Winston Churchill

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“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.” — Aristotle

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“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.” — Victor Hugo

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“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.” — George Washington

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“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.” — Karl Marx

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“History is more or less bunk.” — Henry Ford

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