“Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.”
Source: Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations
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“Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
Source: Assessments and Anticipations
“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
“If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.”
“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.”
Source: The History of the World, in Five Books
“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”
“Every past is worth condemning.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.”
Source: Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge