Quotes on history

“Cheer up—the worst is yet to come.”

Topics: cheer, come, history

“It’s lovely to live on a raft.”

Topics: history, lives, lovely

“There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.”

Topics: history, mainly, quote

“Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.”

Topics: appeared, bucket, handled

“Life does not consist mainly—or even largely—of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one’s head.”

Topics: consist, even, facts

“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.”

Topics: almost, beliefs, convictions

“Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.”

Topics: broke, chain, history

“The report of my death was an exaggeration.”

Topics: deaths, exaggeration, history

“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”

Topics: economize, history, mark

“Imagination labors best in distant fields.”

Topics: best, distant, fields

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