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Quote by John Burroughs
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. – John Burroughs

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When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. – John Burroughs

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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. – Francis Bacon

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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

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