historical

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56075e6	One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.	feminism historical inspirational legendary women	Joan of Arc
c67d4a6	Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.	historical	Lauren Willig
20f8922	It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.	dark dracula european fiction historian historical horror moody vampire vlad-the-impaler	Elizabeth Kostova
5fbbffb	Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.	historical philosophy	Herman Melville
dff2759	The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence	historical historical-perspective history-repeating-itself human-perception jared-wheat past past-and-future perception presence the-past	T.S. Eliot
76f4f28	"When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen."	historical inspirational literary women	David McCullough
7dc8d6e	I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in my bed. That's what I want today. That's what I'll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness.	historical historical-romance queen queen-victoria romance rules-of-attraction	Christina Dodd
9e8169c	He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.	historical romance	Philippa Gregory
09e2d46	People perish. Books are immortal.	historical literature	Robert Harris
bc93eeb	History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.	historical society truth	Jodi Picoult
6211eb0	Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.	historical history hobbies humour larps reenactment wenches wit women	Terry Pratchett
e20a868	"She was in big trouble now. "You stupid man," she said to the body on the floor. "Why did you have to lunge at me like that? Why couldn't you have left well enough alone? I told your father I wasn't going to marry you. I told him I wouldn't marry you if you were the last idiot in Britain." She nearly stamped her foot in frustration. Why was it her words never came out quite the way she intended them to? "What I meant to say was that you are an idiot," she said to Percy, who, not surprisingly, didn't respond, "and that I wouldn't marry you if you were the last man in Britain, and- Oh, blast. What am I doing talking to you, anyway? You're quite dead."	historical humor	Julia Quinn
bd730a0	These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness	belief-system belief-systems beliefs dune dune-arrakis dune-house-atreides dune-messiah evil evil-men faith falsehood falsehoods good goodness historical historical-perspective history history-of-mankind history-of-thought justice-of-god moral moral-law morality morals religion religion-philosophy religion-spirituality religions religious religious-faith virtue virtues	Frank Herbert
833dd19	"Percy, you are dismissed from my service." "Me? Why, my lord?" "Why? Because, Percy, far from being a fit consort for a prince of the realm, you would bore the leggings off a village idiot. You ride a horse rather less well than another horse would. Your brain would make a grain of sand look large and ungainly, and the part of you that can't be mentioned, I am reliably informed by women around the court, wouldn't be worth mentioning even if it could be. If you put on a floppy hat and a funny codpiece, you might just get by as a fool, but since you wouldn't know a joke if it got up and gave you a haircut, I doubt it. That's why you're dismissed." "Oh, I see." "And as for you, Baldrick..." "Yes." "You're out, too."	historical humor insult satire	Richard Curtis
a9316f4	Bana hic acimayin... Biz, siradan insanlar, yalniz bir sefer oluruz. Ama buyuk adamlar iki sefer olurler. Birinci sefer bu dunyayi birakip goctukleri, ikinci sefer de biraktiklari eserler, yikilip kayboldugu zaman.	bosnia drina historical ivo-andric novel ottoman-empire quotes	Ivo Andrić
cd84944	La justicia pertenece al campo de las fuerzas del alma. Y por eso puede brotar en los lugares menos propicios, pues cuando la llamamos, alli acude, a veces con la venda en los ojos pero alenta al oido, desde no se sabe muy bien donde, como una cosa anterior a jueces y acusados, incluso a las propias leyes escritas	el-lápiz-dek-carpintero historical humanity justice laws terms	Manuel Rivas
5f2a930	The traditions of . . . bygone times, even to the smallest social particular, enable one to understand more clearly the circumstances with contributed to the formation of character. The daily life into which people are born, and into which they are absorbed before they are well aware, forms chains which only one in a hundred has moral strength enough to despise, and to break when the right time comes - when an inward necessity for independent individual action arises, which is superior to all outward conventionalities. Therefore it is well to know what were the chains of daily domestic habit which were the natural leading-strings of our forefathers before they learnt to go alone.	character circumstances forefathers generations habits historical history mindsets traditions	Elizabeth Gaskell
45b460d	"There were three wedding cakes, curious and historical but tasty, each labeled with a calligraphed card: "Plumb Cake" with currants, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, salt, citron, orange peel candied, flour, eggs, yeast, wine, cream, raisins. Adapted from Mrs. Simmons, American Cookery, 1796. "Curran-cake" with sugar, eggs, butter, flour, currans, brandy. Adapted from Mrs. McClintock, Receipts for Cookery and Pastry-Work, 1736. "Chocolate Honeycake" with oil, unsweetened cocoa and baking chocolate, honey, eggs, vanilla, flour, salt, baking powder. Adapted from Mollie Katzen, The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, 1982."	historical ingredients wedding-cakes	Allegra Goodman
cf557de	"Alison's gaze gentled. "Tell me, Samantha, have you ever been to Scotland?"	brawn-highlander historical lord notorious-rake romance wild-west	Kerrigan Byrne
e57a58e	Dear God, I don't want my fear to be a barrier to the blessings you are trying to bestow. Cast out my fear, and help me to trust your perfect love. But also grant me a full measure of wisdom. Do not let me be led astray by my own desires. If it is not your will that I pursue a relationship with Levi, I pray that you will stop me. Make your message so clear that I cannot argue it away. Protect me, Lord, and show me the way I should go.	faith-quotes godly-woman historical inspirational prayer relationships religion wisdom	Karen Witemeyer
1f50e68	I am going to be Queen of England,' I protest. 'You make it sound like a battle to the death.' 'It is a battle to the death,' she says simply. 'That is what it means to be Queen of England. You are not Melusina, rising from a fountain to easy happiness. You will not be a beautiful woman at court with nothing to do but make magic. The road you have chosen will mean that you have to spend your life scheming and fighting. Our task, as your family, is to make sure you win.	historical romance war	Philippa Gregory
88992c5	I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES!	historical humor satire witchcraft	Richard Curtis
9c52762	The clouds of night opened like ink blossoming in water.	historical london	Christopher Fowler
2d1bf99	There was an exciting atmosphere about the place that uplifted her. It was as if she could actually feel the accelerated steady pulse of the town's heart beating in time with her own.	historical romance	Margaret Mitchell

56075e6

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

feminism historical inspirational legendary women

Joan of Arc

c67d4a6

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

historical

Lauren Willig

20f8922

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

dark dracula european fiction historian historical horror moody vampire vlad-the-impaler

Elizabeth Kostova

5fbbffb

Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.

historical philosophy

Herman Melville

dff2759

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

historical historical-perspective history-repeating-itself human-perception jared-wheat past past-and-future perception presence the-past

T.S. Eliot

76f4f28

"When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen."

historical inspirational literary women

David McCullough

7dc8d6e

I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in my bed. That's what I want today. That's what I'll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness.

historical historical-romance queen queen-victoria romance rules-of-attraction

Christina Dodd

9e8169c

He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.

historical romance

Philippa Gregory

09e2d46

People perish. Books are immortal.

historical literature

Robert Harris

bc93eeb

History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.

historical society truth

Jodi Picoult

6211eb0

Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.

historical history hobbies humour larps reenactment wenches wit women

Terry Pratchett

e20a868

"She was in big trouble now. "You stupid man," she said to the body on the floor. "Why did you have to lunge at me like that? Why couldn't you have left well enough alone? I told your father I wasn't going to marry you. I told him I wouldn't marry you if you were the last idiot in Britain." She nearly stamped her foot in frustration. Why was it her words never came out quite the way she intended them to? "What I meant to say was that you are an idiot," she said to Percy, who, not surprisingly, didn't respond, "and that I wouldn't marry you if you were the last man in Britain, and- Oh, blast. What am I doing talking to you, anyway? You're quite dead."

historical humor

Julia Quinn

bd730a0

These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

belief-system belief-systems beliefs dune dune-arrakis dune-house-atreides dune-messiah evil evil-men faith falsehood falsehoods good goodness historical historical-perspective history history-of-mankind history-of-thought justice-of-god moral moral-law morality morals religion religion-philosophy religion-spirituality religions religious religious-faith virtue virtues

Frank Herbert

833dd19

"Percy, you are dismissed from my service." "Me? Why, my lord?" "Why? Because, Percy, far from being a fit consort for a prince of the realm, you would bore the leggings off a village idiot. You ride a horse rather less well than another horse would. Your brain would make a grain of sand look large and ungainly, and the part of you that can't be mentioned, I am reliably informed by women around the court, wouldn't be worth mentioning even if it could be. If you put on a floppy hat and a funny codpiece, you might just get by as a fool, but since you wouldn't know a joke if it got up and gave you a haircut, I doubt it. That's why you're dismissed." "Oh, I see." "And as for you, Baldrick..." "Yes." "You're out, too."

historical humor insult satire

Richard Curtis

a9316f4

Bana hic acimayin... Biz, siradan insanlar, yalniz bir sefer oluruz. Ama buyuk adamlar iki sefer olurler. Birinci sefer bu dunyayi birakip goctukleri, ikinci sefer de biraktiklari eserler, yikilip kayboldugu zaman.

bosnia drina historical ivo-andric novel ottoman-empire quotes

Ivo Andrić

cd84944

La justicia pertenece al campo de las fuerzas del alma. Y por eso puede brotar en los lugares menos propicios, pues cuando la llamamos, alli acude, a veces con la venda en los ojos pero alenta al oido, desde no se sabe muy bien donde, como una cosa anterior a jueces y acusados, incluso a las propias leyes escritas

el-lápiz-dek-carpintero historical humanity justice laws terms

Manuel Rivas

5f2a930

The traditions of . . . bygone times, even to the smallest social particular, enable one to understand more clearly the circumstances with contributed to the formation of character. The daily life into which people are born, and into which they are absorbed before they are well aware, forms chains which only one in a hundred has moral strength enough to despise, and to break when the right time comes - when an inward necessity for independent individual action arises, which is superior to all outward conventionalities. Therefore it is well to know what were the chains of daily domestic habit which were the natural leading-strings of our forefathers before they learnt to go alone.

character circumstances forefathers generations habits historical history mindsets traditions

Elizabeth Gaskell

45b460d

"There were three wedding cakes, curious and historical but tasty, each labeled with a calligraphed card: "Plumb Cake" with currants, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, salt, citron, orange peel candied, flour, eggs, yeast, wine, cream, raisins. Adapted from Mrs. Simmons, American Cookery, 1796. "Curran-cake" with sugar, eggs, butter, flour, currans, brandy. Adapted from Mrs. McClintock, Receipts for Cookery and Pastry-Work, 1736. "Chocolate Honeycake" with oil, unsweetened cocoa and baking chocolate, honey, eggs, vanilla, flour, salt, baking powder. Adapted from Mollie Katzen, The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, 1982."

historical ingredients wedding-cakes

Allegra Goodman

cf557de

"Alison's gaze gentled. "Tell me, Samantha, have you ever been to Scotland?"

brawn-highlander historical lord notorious-rake romance wild-west

Kerrigan Byrne

e57a58e

Dear God, I don't want my fear to be a barrier to the blessings you are trying to bestow. Cast out my fear, and help me to trust your perfect love. But also grant me a full measure of wisdom. Do not let me be led astray by my own desires. If it is not your will that I pursue a relationship with Levi, I pray that you will stop me. Make your message so clear that I cannot argue it away. Protect me, Lord, and show me the way I should go.

faith-quotes godly-woman historical inspirational prayer relationships religion wisdom

Karen Witemeyer

1f50e68

I am going to be Queen of England,' I protest. 'You make it sound like a battle to the death.' 'It is a battle to the death,' she says simply. 'That is what it means to be Queen of England. You are not Melusina, rising from a fountain to easy happiness. You will not be a beautiful woman at court with nothing to do but make magic. The road you have chosen will mean that you have to spend your life scheming and fighting. Our task, as your family, is to make sure you win.

historical romance war

Philippa Gregory

88992c5

I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES!

historical humor satire witchcraft

Richard Curtis

9c52762

The clouds of night opened like ink blossoming in water.

historical london

Christopher Fowler

2d1bf99

There was an exciting atmosphere about the place that uplifted her. It was as if she could actually feel the accelerated steady pulse of the town's heart beating in time with her own.

historical romance

Margaret Mitchell