"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."

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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

History, Books, Knowledge, Order, Learning

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

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

History, Repetition, Lesson, Past

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

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

History, Printing, Years

"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

History, Moon, Change, Truth

"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

History, Memory, Identity, Crime

"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

"The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it."

Rasheed Ogunlaru, British Motivational Speaker

History, Regret, Learning, Mistake

"By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept, Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare, To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare, The shaft we raise to them and thee."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

History, Memory, Heroes, Nature

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"Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion."

Religion

"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."

Failure

"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him."

Work

"Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man."

Society

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."

Love

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."

Nature

"Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all."

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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."

"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."

"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."

"The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it."

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"Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion."

"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."

"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him."

"The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind."

"One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then."

"To me - old age is always ten years older than I am."

"Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man."

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."

"Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all."