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• Quote 3012

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

  by: John Burroughs

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• Quote 3005

  Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

  by: John Burroughs

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• Quote 2815

  No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam

  by: Charles Lamb

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• Quote 2813

  Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

  by: Charles Lamb

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• Quote 2754

  Remember that lost time does not return.

  by: Thomas a Kempis

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• Quote 2613

  We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

  by: Charles Robert Darwin

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• Quote 2601

  A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

  by: Charles Robert Darwin

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• Quote 2545

  The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

  by: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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• Quote 2540

  The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living

  by: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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• Quote 2457

  God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages

  by: William Ellery Channing

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• Quote 2354

  We come too late to say anything which has not been said already

  by: Jean de La Bruyère

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• Quote 2321

  Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

  by: Jean de La Bruyère

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• Quote 2232

  If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday

  by: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

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• Quote 2225

  One faces the future with one's past

  by: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

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• Quote 2203

  I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward

  by: Charlotte Bronte

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• Quote 2182

  The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today

  by: Harriet Beecher-Stowe

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• Quote 2177

  But what is past my help is past my care

  by: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

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• Quote 2088

  What is now proved was once only imagined.

  by: William Blake

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• Quote 1814

  Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them

  by: Joseph Addison

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• Quote 1811

  Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn

  by: Joseph Addison

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• Quote 1806

  It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution

  by: Joseph Addison

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• Quote 1672

  I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

  by: Thomas Jefferson

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• Quote 1668

  God cannot alter the past, though historians can

  by: Samuel Butler

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• Quote 1526

  You can never plan the future by the past

  by: Edmund Burke

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• Quote 1147

  The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

  by: Ernest Renan

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