"Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time."

History, Time, Shipwreck

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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."

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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."

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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

Victor Hugo, French Author

History, Echo, Future, Past

"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."

Victor Hugo, French Author

History, Goodness

"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

History, Truth, Regret, Power, Wisdom

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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

"Science is but an image of the truth."

"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."

"A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it."

"Wise men make more opportunities than they find."

"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

"Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."

"He that hath knowledge spareth his words."

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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."

"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."

"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."

"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."

"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."