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A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. — Henry James

The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for "The — Edward Gibbon

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials. — Ethan Suplee

History provides a great example but a terrible excuse. — Liz Curtis Higgs

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him. — Charles Spurgeon

The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict. — Rick Perry

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. — Milton Friedman

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history. — Dave Malloy

The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in. — John Greenleaf Whittier

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free. — John F. Kennedy

To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history. — Lord Acton

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality. — Jon Meacham

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. — Jon Meacham

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor. — Allen Klein

We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over 2,000 years ago. — Jake Wood

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history. — Bernard Hopkins

History books celebrate people who overcome great challenges, they do not celebrate critics. — Ryan Chamberlin

Throughout history, all of mankind's disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing - - that a great enlightenment is coming. — Dan Brown

The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely. — David McCullough

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. — Victor Hugo

We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly. — Nursultan Nazarbayev

Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than what we are now, students. If they can do it, why not us? — J.K. Rowling

We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me. — Marianne Williamson

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. — Frederic Bastiat

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle

Being a noninvasive advanced civilization
was the biggest mistake of Batak Kingdom. — Toba Beta

We might have been a free and great people together. — Thomas Jefferson

I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history. — Harry S. Dent

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it. — Peter Eisenman

And who would deny that the consumer demand for ever more stuff at ever cheaper prices is one of the great deterministic forces in history? — Michael Lewis

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA. — Bram Stoker

One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes. — Stephen Kinzer

How many forgotten heroes sleep in history's great cemetery? — Laurent Binet

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened. — Peggy Noonan

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. — Karl Jaspers

The first great skeptic of American exceptionalism, he refused to believe that the country was exempt from the sober lessons of history. — Ron Chernow

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor

Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today. — David Miliband

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations? — Dorothy Salisbury Davis

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. — William Landay

There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history. — William Halsey