Carpe Quote by Edmund Burke Download Open image “History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.” — Edmund Burke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Carpe Carpe diem History Life Pact Unborn
History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living. — John Smith Copy Share Image
History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“History is dead until we make it live; but it is the lively interpretation of history that makes it interesting.” — Robert J. Devaux Copy Share Image
[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“Edmund Burke once described society as a partnership between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. It is difficult to see in the… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“We all came from our mothers' bellies. We all have hope in our veins. We don't want history to forget us, but the dead… — Henri Cole Copy Share Image
“History is not a dead thing or a sure thing. It lived with our choices and our dreams. It is the story of our glories and our sadnesses. It is at different times a lover, an enemy, a teacher, a prophet. It is always a collective memory as complicated and contradictory as people who lived it, but it is always… — Joan Nestle Copy Share
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed… — Norman Podhoretz Copy Share Image
I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace. — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently? — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is… — Horace Copy Share Image
Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation,… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
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