Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
More Plato Quotes
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We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we make today.
Henry Ford
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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C.S. Lewis
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde
