History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
Sometimes - history needs a push.
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.