The ideal historian goes to ...

The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: \
The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.
 Austin O'Malley

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
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 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe