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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot

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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. – George Eliot

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We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. – George Eliot

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Faith
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To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion. – George Eliot

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Throughout this countrys history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass. – Eric Liu

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History is the propaganda of the victors. – Ernst Toller

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If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society. – Strom Thurmond

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Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing. – Willis Thornton, Fable, Fact and History

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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. – Arabic Proverb

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To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer. – Bodenstedt

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Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius

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I love sport, I grew up playing sports, thats all I did, and it is so invigorating now that Im supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up. – Ellen Page

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