If history records good things of good men, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good.

Siue enim historia de bonis bona referat, ad imitandum bonum auditor sollicitus instigatur;

Venerable Bede

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Topic

Learning from the past The past History

Author

Venerable Bede

Source

Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Genre

Historical literature

Language

Latin

Time

731 730s 8th century

Era

Middle Ages

Occupation

Historian Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Bede. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum [Ecclesiastical History of the English People]. c. 731, preface.

Current Citation

Bede. "Ecclesiastical History of the English People." The Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Greater Chronicle; Bede's Letter to Egbert, edited by Judith McClure and Roger Collins. Oxford University Press, 2009, preface.

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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

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Medium
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Original Citation

Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 1, ch. 5.

Current Citation

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We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Bernard of Chartres

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Author

John of Salisbury
Language
Latin
Time
1159 1150s 12th century
Era
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Authentication Score 3
Citation

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Another quote originally in Latin

The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.

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Juvenal
Source
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Medium
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
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Era
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Authentication Score 3
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