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The withered primrose by the mourning river,
The faded summer's sun from weeping fountains,
The light-blown bubble vanished for ever,
The molten snow upon the naked mountains,
Are emblems that the treasures we up-lay
Soon wither, vanish, fade, and melt away.
Edmund Bolton
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'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.
Albert Bushnell Hart
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Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.
Johan Huizinga
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Economists have traditionally been leery at mentalités as a factor in long-term economic development. In the budding literature on the economic rise of the West, such factors have been ignored or curtly dismissed. In the past, economists' hostility to religious factors stems from the incompleteness of such theories. Attitudes were a matter of degree, not of absolutes.
Joel Mokyr
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Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire for example, shorts
Geoffrey Perret
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Jesus Christ rose from the grave.' With this proclamation, the Christian church began. This may be the fundamental element of Christian faith; certainly it is the most radical.
Elaine Pagels
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Truth can thus only percolate in the form of hearsay.
Robert Conquest
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Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.
Jules Michelet
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His [the Virginian's] dream was to found an aristocratic republic, in which superior individuals would emerge to rule the many.
Clifford Dowdey
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In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.
Alison Weir
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Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family.
Ian Kershaw
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I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.
Steve Roper
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Historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.
Veronica Wedgwood
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During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by 'preventing worse language.' In the military it would be called friendly fire. One ends up just as dead.
John Frohnmayer
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Most Blacks had supported the courageous struggles of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) against both school inequality and school segregation. The demise of their schools and the inequitable burdens of school desegregation, however, raised new doubts. There emerged a notable continuity between older, more conservative African American voices, which had given the building of strong Black schools priority over desegregation, and the newer "militant" expressions of Black separatism and community control.
David S. Cecelski
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We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.
Waldo Frank
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Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.
Ariel Durant
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Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.
Clive Ponting
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There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.
Russell Lynes
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The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.
T. J. Clark (art historian)
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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.
Frederic William Maitland
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How could anyone be "Cary Grant"? But how can anyone, ever after, not consider the attempt?
David Thomson
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With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.
Bryan Ward-Perkins
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Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall,
Antony Beevor
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Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks.
Howard Mansfield
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