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861 Historian Quotes

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

All possessions Friend Most precious
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

Life Comedy Who think Tragedy
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Whole secret Life Profoundly Thousand things
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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Begun Half done Courage Wise
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We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.

Playthings Our fear Physical pain
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When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

People Weed Own mind Overrun
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The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

Modern times Everything Create controversy
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To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

Common sense Moment Best wisdom
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History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

History Romance Believe
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Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.

Cunning Consequence Sense See through
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I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.

Had friends Vexed Betrayed me Walked
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It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Difficult Vanity Impossible Self love
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The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

Contempt Money Virtue Wash
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Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie

Justice Activity Truth Virtue
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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Greater things Perform World Bill
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Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.
Lawyers Rogue Easily rooted Rich soil
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Anything forced is not beautiful

Anything forced Beautiful
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No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.

Human being The truth Happened By chance
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If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

Consider Virtues Mankind Growth
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.

Moderation Things healthy Total abstinence Harmful
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There is a deep—and usually frustrated—desire in the heart of everyone to act with benevolence rather than selfishness, and one fine instance of generosity can inspire dozens more.

A deep Frustrated Benevolence
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.

Battles Decided more Morale Bodily strength
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A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.

Man Cruelty Lies Opportunity
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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people's affairs, never turn to examine themselves.

Most people Upon looking People's affairs Examine themselves
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Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!

Men Enemy troops Stands between Place
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People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.

People Right Wrong Nobody can
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The man who doesn't know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
The man Don't know Own ability Ignorant
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform

Small risk A general Contempt Lead
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

Eats Most pleasure Requires Sauce
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I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.

Will venture Teacher Pleasing Education
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency

Success Never Breed complacency
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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.

Whatever Determine Right Diligence endeavour
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I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.

Choosing Die Remain alive Freedom
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...men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them.
Men unite Readily Rule Over them
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The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

True test Leader Followers Adhere
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If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.

Covet riches Endevour Overcome Victorious
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.

A man Field Pant Farm
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen

Children Great men Opportunity Learning
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You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.

Neither numbers Strength Victory Assistance
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I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.

Impossible Remember Long poem Practice
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Sweetest Sounds Praise
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Excess Grief Dead Madness
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

Horse Beauty Tire Displays himself
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We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them

We secure Friends Accepting favors
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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared

Hope Expensive commodity Better sense Be prepared
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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

Self control Chief element Self respect Courage
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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.

Be esteemed Bravest spirit Clearest sense Pains
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In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes away the easy supply of daily wants and so proves a rough master that brings most men's characters to a level with their fortunes.

In peace Prosperity states Individuals Better sentiments
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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
The strong Do what Have The weak accept
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When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

When one Deprived Liberty Blaming
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