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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.

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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Absence Foundation Mortal One Liner Politics Subject Unstable Wisdom
It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Award Delight Greater Grief Grieving Hate Heart Life Men Mind Motivation One Liner Prize Show Sorrow
Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Careless End One Liner Over Pain Sorrow Start Struggle
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Brave Chance Coward Rule Service
The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Deed Evil Forget History Life Office Principal Virtuous
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Absence Circumstance Portrait
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Encouragement Error Event Formation Great Idea Obscure Source Update
Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Blood Emotion Guilt Mission One Liner Person Politics Shed Value
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Empire Formation Life Peace Slatter Slaughter.Steal War
Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Belief Caracter Elect Giving Honor Loyal Men Proof Rumor Spread Talk True
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Fault Giving Inspire More Needful Oblige Offense Try Trying
A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Beautiful Bitter Inspirational Jest Journey Leave Life Motivational One Liner Struggle Succes Truth

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