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Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.”

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American essayist, poet, and philosopher. Born on May 25, 1803, and died on April 27, 1882. Known for his transcendentalist philosophy, his works have had a profound impact on literature and the intellectual world. more

“The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future.”

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Author:Carl L. Becker

“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.”

Knows Men Wisdom Past History Knowing Not Knowing Disadvantages

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.”

World May Wisdom Destiny History Fate Exercise Repeats Our World Academic Destined Our Destiny

Author:Alex Haley

“The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid further movement and because they are and will be innovators per se; secondly, because the forces aroused or subdued by them can be employed only through further acts.”

Firsts Force History Movement Employed Accustomed Rapids Innovators Stationary

Book:Judgements on History and Historians

Source: Judgements on History and Historians

“I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain.... The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press.... All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship.”

Whole Seems Would Be Certain Evil History Generations Revolution Presses University Revolutionary Germany Censorship Journal Urgent Never Fear

Author:Klemens von Metternich

“Error has never approached my spirit.”

Spirit History Errors

Author:Klemens von Metternich

“The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.”

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Author:Klemens von Metternich

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