"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul."

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Lord Acton

#Memories Quotes #Illumination Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.”
“Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical geometry. Out with them!”
“As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval.”
“Strength is not gained overnight; it is cultivated over time.”
“History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.”

Source : Jeanne C. Stein (2013). “Blood Bond”, Penguin
“TheÂ common lawÂ is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.”
“Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.”
“A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace or compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be.”

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