John Donne Quotes, Night Quotes, History Quotes

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

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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

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No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.

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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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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

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History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

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Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing.

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Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing.

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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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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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

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

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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