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Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
History is a confused heap of facts.
History is a confused heap of facts.
Listen to the Water-Mill:
Through the live-long day
How the clicking of its wheel
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Listen to the Water-Mill:
Through the live-long day
How the clicking of its wheel
Wears the hours away!
Languidly the Autumn wind
Stirs the forest leaves,
From the field the reapers sing
Binding up their sheaves:
And a proverb haunts my mind
As a spell is cast,
"The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past."
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true.
History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true.
