Thomas Hardy on history

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

Adolf Hitler1889–1945

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Harry S. Truman1884–1972