Quote by Joseph Addison
We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would

We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. – Joseph Addison

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. – Joseph Addison

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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. – Joseph Addison

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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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But when one believes that youve been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that? – Jim Wallis

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History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory. – Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences

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[History] is fallible as every man is fallible. But it is likewise trustworthy, as a man is trustworthy who has looked into himself and come to know how blended are dust and fire in the innermost recesses of the human heart. – Arthur Bestor

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