Quotes on history

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep. The more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.”

Shakespeare
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“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.”

Shakespeare
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“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”

Shakespeare
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“To be or not to be—that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep— No more—and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep— To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.”

Shakespeare
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“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

Shakespeare
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“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism…The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.”

Theodore Roosevelt
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear.”

Mark Twain
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“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”

Mark Twain
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“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”

Mark Twain
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“True irreverence is disrespect for another man’s god.”

Mark Twain
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