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861 Historian Quotes

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
Every Author Distingush Man
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Wise Man Discover
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Wise Man Goes Grow
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Falsehood Wise Man Trust
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Think Man Communicate Language
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
Suffering Wisdom Wish Wise
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

Against Beings Conditioning Control
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The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Destroy First First People Free
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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

About Appear Barbarians Came
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
Patterns Perceive Understand Wisdom
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Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Against Being Established Ever
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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Collective Cured Evils Fighting
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The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Chains Else Enslavement Extension
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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Adult Asking Childish Persist
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The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Absolute Certainties Childhood Craving
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It is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.

It is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
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It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

Wisdom Beginning Recognize Best
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The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. Life

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom But to scar tissue and callus. Life
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He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

Used Like Best You
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There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.

Place Best Time Friendship
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Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

Proud Scar Heart Holds
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She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.
She Room Mind Look
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There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.

Sense There Consequences
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We write to make sense of it all.

We Write Sense All
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Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.

Youth Chronological Hope Happiness
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You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.

Do Think You Lucky
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Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

Town People Old Ones
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I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow
Shall I Richer Life
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Our last impression of her as she turned the corner was that smile, flung backward like a handful of flowers.
Last Impression Smile Handful
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Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?
Do We Respond Find
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In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.
Young Beautiful Right Wife
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You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

You Retire Weakness Learn
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It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

Love Friendship Sanctity Celebration
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Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

Find Greatest Good Evil
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You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.

You Married Marry What
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No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.
Life Goes Past Eventless
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Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
Hope Always Ahead Possibility
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It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

Easier Move Side Trunks
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Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
Faith Reclaim Desert Move
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A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

Writer Organism Writing Heart
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This early piece of the morning is mine.
Early Piece Morning Mine
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Nothing is so safe as habit, even when habit is faked.

Nothing Safe Habit Faked
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Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

Creation Knack Empowered Practice
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I know no way of discounting the doctrine that when you take something you want, and damn the consequences, then you had better be ready to accept whatever consequences ensue.

Know Discounting Doctrine Take
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We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.

Made Plenty Mistakes Never
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hope they have found enough pleasure along the way so that they don't want it ended.

Hope Have Found Pleasure
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There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

Some History Have Happened
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To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

Have Little Value Quaintly
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Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that we have no conception of, always it is temporary.

Survuval Called Acidental Engineered
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Satisfying natural desires is fine, but natural desires have a way of being both competitive and consequential.

Satisfying Natural Desire Way
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