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Quote by Lord Acton
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the s

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. – Lord Acton

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Im not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. – Lord Acton

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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. – Lord Acton

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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. – Aristotle

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In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it. – Hans-Georg Gadamer

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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. – Benjamin Disraeli

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[T]he Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. – Thomas Carlyle, Characteristics

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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. – Samuel Richardson

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