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“Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.”

Soul Eye Perfect History Wise Historian Gifted

Book:Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations

Source: Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations

“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

“To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most of the useful and respectable, qualifications. The character in which both the one and the other should be united and harmonised would seem to constitute the most perfect idea of human nature.”

Should Humans May Ideas Character Seems Action Perfect Pleasure United History Human Nature Attributes Respectable Roman Empire Qualifications

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

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

“At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union.”

People Age Form Force Perfect History Century Information Shapes Unions Dawn 21st Century Limitless Information Age Limitless Potential

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997

“It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.”

Ifs Way Feelings Women Perfect History Becoming Findings Judgment God's Love God Is Love Experiencing God

Book:The Power of a Praying Woman Deluxe Edition

Source: The Power of a Praying Woman Deluxe Edition

“To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.”

Perfect History Arms Achievement Conscience Great Achievement

Author:Lord Acton

“What we see in history is not a transformation, a passing of one race into another, but entirely new and perfect creations, which the ever-youthful productivity of nature sends forth from the invisible realm of Hades.”

Science Nature Perfect Race History Creation Transformation Productivity Invisible Passing Passings Realms Hades

Author:Adolf Bastian