"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."

Flaubert, Gustave on history and historians
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"The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it is etched."

Coudert, Jo on habit   

"Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have."

Carnegie, Dale on habit
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"The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present."

Dimnet, Ernest on history and historians   

"What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted."

Cromwell, Oliver on history and historians   

"The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves."

Cicero, Marcus T. on history and historians
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"The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change."

Eng's Principle on habit   

"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."

Franklin, Benjamin on habit
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"The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires."

Getty, J. Paul on habit   

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

Lombardi, Vince on habit
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"Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time."

Raleigh, Sir Walter on history and historians   

"Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history."

Lincoln, Abraham on history and historians
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"History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page in the daily press without learning the specific time, place, and name of evil. But perhaps the most pervasive evil of all rarely appears in the news. This evil, the waste of human potential, is particularly painful to recognize for it strikes our parents and children, our friends and brothers, ourselves."

Leonard, George on history and historians   

"One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other."

Hugo, Victor on history and historians
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"The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken."

Johnson, Samuel on habit
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"The history of mankind is his character."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on history and historians
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"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you."

Gilbert, Dr. Rob on habit   

"Habit is a great deadener."

Beckett, Samuel on habit   

"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity."

Augustine, St. on habit
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"Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day."

Ching Ning Chu on belief   

"Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds."

Chesterfield, Lord on belief   

"Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested."

Bacon, Francis on books - reading
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"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."

Auden, W. H. on books - reading
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"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

Adler, Mortimer J. on books - reading
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"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends."

Adams, Dawn on books - reading
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"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."

Davies, Robertson on books - classics
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"No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve."

Carlyle, Thomas on belief   

"You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason."

Dyer, Wayne on belief
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"You'll see it when you believe it."

Dyer, Wayne on belief
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"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."

Epictetus on belief
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle on habit
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"History is but a confused heap of facts."

Chesterfield, Lord on history and historians   

"It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment."

Bacon, Francis on history and historians   

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Wilde, Oscar on art
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"God gave burdens, also shoulders."

Proverb, Yiddish on burdens
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"None knows the weight of another's burden."

Herbert, George on burdens
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"I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back."

Brooks, Phillips on burdens
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"Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on belief
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"We are what we believe we are"

Cardozo, Benjamin N. on belief
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"Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God."

Angelou, Maya on children
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