Quotes on history

“What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.”

Topics: dark, history, illumine

“Who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe.”

Topics: force, halfway, hath

“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing, Heav’nly Muse.”

Topics: disobedience, first, forbidden

“Boast not of what thou would’st have done, but do What then thou would’st.”

Topics: boast, done, history

“I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.”

Topics: cannot, cloistered, fugitive

“Truth…never comes into the world, but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.”

Topics: history, into, like

“With thee conversing I forget all time.”

Topics: alexander hamilton, conversing, forget

“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”

Topics: better, deserves, heaven

“What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?”

Topics: earth, heaven, history

“Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy.”

Topics: alexander hamilton, history, john

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