A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.... What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.George Santayana
The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
George Santayana
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
George Santayana
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
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