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Quote 3012
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeralShowing Quotes on past
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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.Showing Quotes on past
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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 AdamShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 2813
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.Showing Quotes on past
Quote 2754
Remember that lost time does not return.Showing Quotes on past
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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.Showing Quotes on past
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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 othersShowing Quotes on past
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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.Showing Quotes on past
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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 livingShowing Quotes on past
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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 agesShowing Quotes on past
Quote 2354
We come too late to say anything which has not been said alreadyShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 2321
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.Showing Quotes on past
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Quote 2232
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterdayShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 2225
One faces the future with one's pastShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 2203
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upwardShowing Quotes on past
Quote 2182
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are todayShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 2177
But what is past my help is past my careShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 2088
What is now proved was once only imagined.Showing Quotes on past
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Quote 1814
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on themShowing Quotes on past
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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 unbornShowing Quotes on past
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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 persecutionShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 1672
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.Showing Quotes on past
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Quote 1668
God cannot alter the past, though historians canShowing Quotes on past
Quote 1526
You can never plan the future by the pastShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 1147
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.Showing Quotes on past
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