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“The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.”

People War Shows Lasts Values Challenges Memories History Gone Sorrow Ordinary Endure Realization Civil War Bitterness Worn Veteran Ordinary People American Civil War

Author:Bruce Catton

“The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.”

Men Done Past History Gone Importance Ignorant Women In History

Book:Of Men and Women

Source: Of Men and Women

“At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.”

Past Perfect History Gone Century Quiet Down And Bottom Dumb

Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”

Source: Occasions and protests

“We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow the madness gave way to afrenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor, with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone.”

Ifs Knows World Way Stills War States Spirit Poor History Gone Tomorrow Europe Madness Surprise War Of The Worlds Engines World War Ii Flags World War I Breeze Distracted Streaming Demented

Author:Johan Huizinga

“Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.”

Thinking Lying Forget History Gone Air England Defense Deceit Never Forget Frontiers Cliffs Chalk Dover

Author:Stanley Baldwin

“Any time gone by was better.”

History Gone Nostalgia Times Gone By

Author:Jorge Manrique

“When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.”

Country History Gone Return Historian Metaphysics Bourne

Book:The Spiritual Interpretation of History

Source: The Spiritual Interpretation of History

“The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.”

Thinking Men Facts Truth Today Earth Lying Passion History Gone Generations Men And Women Ghost Familiar Spots Miraculous Vanishing History Lies

Author:G. M. Trevelyan

“America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”

Funny America Nations History Gone Civilization Historical Usual Intervals Barbarism Degeneration

Author:Georges Clemenceau

“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”

World Art Song Literature History Gone Special Bird Destroyed Crafts Repeats Passed Away Repeating History History Repeats Itself Wild Birds

Book:Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)