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Category: Quotes

A collection of quotes with an emphasis on sharing life experiences and wisdom from people throughout history.

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Confucius quote: “The ancients who wished…

Posted on January 23, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

Confucius quote:  “The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the Kingdom, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order ...

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Walt Whitman: The Spanish Peaks

Posted on January 22, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

Between Pueblo and Bent’s fort, southward, in a clear afternoon sun-spell I catch exceptionally good glimpses of the Spanish peaks. We are in southeastern...

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President Ulysses Grant Quote

Posted on January 19, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

Quote: I do not bring into this assemblage politics, certainly not partisan politics, but it is a fair subject for soldiers in their deliberations to consider w...

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Charles Eliot quote: “The endless controversies…

Posted on January 13, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

Quote: “The endless controversies whether language, philosophy, mathematics, or science supplies the best mental training, whether general education shoul...

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Charles Dickens quote: “To conceal…

Posted on January 10, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

Quote: “To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.” – ...

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Anne Frank quote: “How wonderful it is…

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

Quote: “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank — “Anne Frank quote: ‘Ho...

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Louisa May Alcott Quote on Housekeeping

Posted on December 30, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

Louisa May Alcott quote: “Housekeeping ain’t no joke.” — Sources: Quote: Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. Robert Brothers, 1868 –...

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“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”

Posted on December 27, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

Abraham Lincoln quote from letter to Albert Hodges “I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did ...

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Amelia Earhart Quotes

Posted on December 25, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

Featured quote: “The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things li...

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Clara Barton Quotes

Posted on December 23, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

Clara Barton Quotes “It was May—the cherry trees were in bloom. For the first time in three years I had been able to sit for an evening among a company of perso...

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