Historical Wisdom

Think Historically.

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...although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Helen Keller (1903)

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Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned too.

Heinrich Heine (1821)

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Anne Frank (1941)

[thegoodvybe]

[aethelfleds]

Anne and Margot Frank at the beach, 1940.

Colorization by me, original photo from @sixpenceee

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Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig! He looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal.

Winston Churchill

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It is always now.

Sam Harris

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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1876)

[samiflippingam-blog]

You can’t control your circumstances, but you can control how you react to them.

Bindi Irwin (via samiflippingam)

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Don’t leave spontaneity to chance.

Peter Collins

[historical-wisdom]

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1819

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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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Justice is the only worship. Love is the only priest. Ignorance is the only slavery. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now, The place to be happy is here, The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert Ingersoll

[historical-wisdom]

Living well is the best revenge.

Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert (1651)

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Anytime you learn your time and energy is not wasted.

Bob Ross

[historical-wisdom]

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time

Blaise Pascal (1656)

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