Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, History Quotes, Records Quotes

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.

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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

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The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

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It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

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The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

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What if this present were the world's last night?

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It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.

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We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

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I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

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