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“Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.”

May History Habit Discipline Fruit Patient Active Diligence Roman Empire Often Is Valour

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is what we make of it; its moral use. By writing history, we can widen readers' thinking and deepen their sympathies in every direction. Perhaps history should show us not how to control the world, but how to enlarge, deepen, and discipline ourselves.”

Thinking World Should Writing Important Play Use Shows Dream Moral History Reader Discipline Errors Reactions Tendencies Falsehood Versus Mixtures What's Important Writing History Power Play

Book:Heart Mountain

Source: Heart Mountain

“Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.”

May Stills Hard Games Sports History Fate Blood Subjects Hard Work Return Victory Discipline Gains Labor Blind Rewards Metaphor Weather Farming Seductive Quirks Visualizing

Author:Garrison Keillor

“But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an Imperial proselyte, whom it was so important to allure, by every gentle condescension, into the pale of the church; and Constantine was permitted, at least by a tacit dispensation, to enjoy most of the privileges, before he had contracted any of the obligations, of a Christian.”

Source: Guizot's Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants; and the ruin of the fairest structures of antiquity still displays the ravages of those barbarians who alone had time and inclination to execute such laborious destruction.”

World Stills History Discipline Authority Destruction Army Structure Peaceful Ruins Display Inclination Fanatics Provinces Antiquity Barbarians Roman Empire

Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”

Desire Freedom Liberty History Discipline Thrive Paradox Free Will Self Discipline Captives Paradoxical

Book:Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“...scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young...there is no mastery, old scientists are ignored. There is no humility before nature...Its a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.”

People Knows Done Form Young Next Can Do Wealth Steps History Rich Humility Discipline Scientist Mastery Ignored You Can Do It Rich People Next Steps Inherited Wealth

Author:Michael Crichton

“It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.”

History Clear Discipline Approach Areas

Book:Ideas and Events: Professing History

Source: Ideas and Events: Professing History