This above all makes history ...

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
 Livy

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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
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.
From abundance springs satiety.
It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous
No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.