"History is the story of events, with praise…" — Cotton Mather

"History is the story of events, with praise or blame."

— Cotton Mather

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17 Quotes by Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I…
Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.
That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the…
Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments…
A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.
Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of…
Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures.…
Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

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More Blame Quotes

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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I… — Darren Aronofsky
You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you.… — Drew Barrymore
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. — Bernard Baruch
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. — Scott Adams
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. — Samuel Beckett
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for… — Tony Benn
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change… — Yogi Berra
I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it… — Yogi Berra
Everyone's quick to blame the alien. — Aeschylus
One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even… — Mary J. Blige
If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we… — Michael Bloomberg
It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies… — John Bolton

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