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861 Historian Quotes

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

Christianity The companion Its conflicts Divine source
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Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

Society Nothing united Common envy
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I am trying to memorize all the names of black men and women killed by the Police in America since last year.

Memorize all Names Black men Women
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The artist making intricate portraits of black life

The artist Making intricate Portraits Black life
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Law and order without justice is tyranny.

Law Order Without justice Tyranny
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You can send the armored cars, and your vicious dogs. And your howitzers, and your cavalry. But. Mr. Trump, you cannot kill the spirit of a hurt people.

Can send Armored cars Vicious dogs Your cavalry
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For those of who wonder why Black people in America don't see the police as their friends, have you seen Minneapolis?

Who wonder Black people See The police
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What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

Want Possess Religion Me
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Act Comfort Luxury Life
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Feelings are like chemicals; the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

Feelings Analyze Worse Smell
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There are two freedoms—the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Freedoms False Man Free
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Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.
Do Noble things Dream Day
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What’s the use of doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

Use Doing Kindness Day
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Do today’s duty, fight today’s temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Do Today Duty Temptation
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Thank God Something Do
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The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

Men Succeed Life Cheerful
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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Great True Friends Mean
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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Except Living man Wonderful Book
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Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

Pain Evil Conuers Us
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Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

Friendship Broken Rarely Same way
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...People's souls make their bodies, just as a snail makes its shell.

People's Souls Bodies Makes
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The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Wonderful Strongest World Know
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Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

Cheerfulness Significance Good health Clear conscience
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Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Duty Wait Returns Fresh
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Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master
Technology Useful Servant Dangerous
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Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.

Concord Solidarity Help Important
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Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Truth Springs Argument Friends
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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
Reason Guide Life Custom
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The law always limits every power it gives.

Law Limits Power Gives
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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Surprising Many Governed Few
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The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

Rules Morality Conclusion Reason
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Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Philosopher But Man
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Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
Everythiong World Purchased Labor
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To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

Hate Love Think Feel
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The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

Corruption Best things Rise Worst
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Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Human nature Science Man Neglected
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He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.

Happy Circumstance Temper Excellent
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Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.

Beauty Exists Mind Contemplates
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[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning;

Revolutions Government Argument Reasoning
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

Reason Ought only Slave Passions
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.

Wise Man Beliefs Evidence
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Men's views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.

View Understanding Temper Passion
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The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation

Lively Thought Inferior Sensation
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.

All knowledge Degenerates Probability
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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

Writing Thinking Clearly Hard
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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

History Guide Perilous times We
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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Real success Finding Work Love
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

Obligation Country Cease Lives
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All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden on others.

Money Needs Prevent Burden
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The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

Suffering Afraid Think Dare
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