History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.