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"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history."

Henry Ward Beecher on History

More quotes about History

  • "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

    Confucius on History

  • "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

    Abraham Lincoln on History

  • "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

    Mahatma Gandhi on History

  • "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

    Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

  • "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

    Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

  • "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

  • "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."

  • "To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

  • "Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments."

  • "Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one."

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