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861 Historian Quotes

It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
The greatest dangers Glory Be won
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Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

Greatness Was won Men With courage
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The secret of happiness is freedom.

The secret Happiness Freedom
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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Happiness depends Being free Freedom Courageous
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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Ignorance Bold Knowledge Reserved
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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Few things Successful issue Impetuous desire
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It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

Habit Mankind Entrust Careless hope
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It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.

Common mistake War Wrong end Disasters
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them

Miracle happen Who believe
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Consistency Requires you Ignorant today Year ago
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It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

Happy Make Encounter goodness Love
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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Can parody Make fun Turn The universe
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die

Complete life Ending Identification Oneself
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity
Literature Comprehensive sense Autobiography Humanity
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

Government lasts Under taxed Can defend Themselves
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

When everything Physical Mental Seems diminish
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Between truth The search Choose The second
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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it

Never felt Anything enviable In youth Cannot recall
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Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

Psychoanalysts Occupied Minds Patients
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

What man Knows Feels Concerns art
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Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?

Enemies Best companions Common interest The eagerness
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
Taste begins Appetite Satisfied
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International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.

International affairs Placed Better footing Understood
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I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
Higher function Feel Appreciated Enjoy natural
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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

Two futures Desire Fate Man's reason
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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Life Has taught Our faults Are disliked
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All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man

All arts Poetry Music Visible
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From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
From childhood Dream Life lived Sacrament
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If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

Great revolutions The presence Blacks
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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

So enamored Equality Slavery Freedom
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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Democracy Socialism Common One word
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There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

No country The world Be provided The laws
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Life Be entered upon With courage
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Liberty Be established Morality Faith
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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

Loved freedom Believe All times Worship it
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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

Language Strongest Most durable Unite mankind
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

Central government Worship uniformity Relieves Inquiry
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

Dangerous Violence employed Well-meaning people
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Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

Society Endangered Great profligacy A few
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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort

Any individual Any period His life Preoccupied
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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

In politics Shared hatreds Friendships
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What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Most important Democracy Great fortunes Same hands
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On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

Close inspection Religion Not fear Absolute government.
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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave

The man Freedom Born A slave
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Past Illuminate The future Spirit walks
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Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
More wonderful Being free Harder Learn
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The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune

The happy Powerful Into exile Surer guarantees
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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

Two things Democratic people Very difficult War
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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

We succeed In enterprises Demand Positive qualities
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everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.

Everybody feels Evil Has courage Seek
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