Sunday, 26 April 2020

Others Have Said It Best.

Learning from history.

" A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. "
Mahatma Ghandi
" Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
" There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. "
Michelle Obama
" Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. "
Plato
" History, a distillation of rumour. "
Thomas Carlyle
" It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. "
Leonardo da Vinci
" The historian is a prophet looking backward. "
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich
" We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past. "
Douglas Hurd
" The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. "
George Orwell
" A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man's history.
It is a man's duty to have books. "

Henry Ward Beecher

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