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If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my… — Henry Adams
If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons. — Lucien Febvre
History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts. — Andrew Marr
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history. — A J P Taylor
Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure. — Amos Bronson Alcott
In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the… — Robert Kiyosaki
I took classical piano lessons from the age of five. — Eddie Van Halen
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons. — John Herschel
Therefore, let us be patient, patient; and let God our Father teach His own lesson, His own way. Let us try to learn it well… — Charles Kingsley
Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests.… — John Ruskin
I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years,… — Kurt Vonnegut
One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the… — John Burroughs
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for… — Winston Churchill
All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of… — William James
We live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it seems to me. Therefore I like stories where the individual takes… — Liam Neeson
The truth is, success often occurs for reasons we don't expect, under circumstances over which we have little control and sometimes unrelated to our own… — Harvey Mackay
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients… — John Hope Franklin
Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the wisdom of the… — Tryon Edwards

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