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861 Historian Quotes

Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first.

Poetry Product Living Got
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When you marry into a Mormon family you marry tribes and nations.

Marry Mormon Family Marry
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...you must have brought something. Books? I never saw you without a green bag of books.

You Must Brought Books
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Well, there's so much to read, and I'm so far behind.
Well Much Read Behind
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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

Meeting Writer Reader Intimate
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Wisdom is knowing what you can accept.

Wisdom Knowing What Accept
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After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.

Day Half Traveler Realize
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If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.

You Avoid Killer Degenerative
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There is a sense in which we are all each other’s consequences.

There Sense Each Consequences
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Anyone who reads, even one from the remote Southwest at the far end of an attenuated tradition, is to some extent a citizen of the world, and I had been a hungry reader all my life.

Read Remote Southwest Tradition
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What little strength he had left flowed out of him and was soaked up; his bones and veins and skin held nothing but tiredness and pain.

Pain.strength Flowed Soaked Bones
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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.

Something Gone People Remaining
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We’re all tougher than we think we are. We’re fixed so that almost anything heals.
All Tougter Think Fixed
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When we’re young, we take so casually every sacrifice offered by the old.

Young Take Casually Every
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As moonlight unto sunlight is that desert sage to other greens.
Moonlight Sunlight Desert Sage
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If you wanted something, you planned for it, worked for it, and made it happen.

You Wanted Planned Worked
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It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Criminal Steal Darling Fortune
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The will of man is his happiness.
Happiness Will Man
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Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Every True Genius Bound
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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Done Best Own-time Lived
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Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

Knowledge Object Factors Motivate
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Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Art Right-hand Nature Made
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He who considers too much will perform little.

Considers Perform Little
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That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Universal Death Benefit
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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Peace Peaceful Denied
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Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Noble Minded Heart Opinion
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Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

Dares-nothing Hope
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Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
Good Natural Leads
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It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Easy Give Advice Port
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There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Thing Chance Seem Merest
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Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Keep Dreams Youth
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Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Grace Beauty Form Influence
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Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Happy Learn Bear Change
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Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Lose Far Time Moment
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Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Full Wisdom Ordination Fate
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There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Room Smallest Happy Loving-pair
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Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

Nation Worthless Gladly Stake
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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Honesty Prospers Condition Life
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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Mankind Made Greater Little
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The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

Voice Majority Proof Justice
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The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
Rich Richer Poor Poorer
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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Emperor Power Dictate Heart
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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Power Most Persuasive Rhetoric
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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Gain Crown Fighting Great
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It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long

Wise Reveal Concealed Long
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To save all we must risk all.
Save We Must Risk
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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

World Ruled Consideration Advantages
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Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Revenge Barren Dreadful Food
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Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Utility Great Powers Talent
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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Wise Wisdom Already Love
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