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

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Bede. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. 731, preface.

Current Citation

Bede. Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Translated by Leo Sherley-Price. Penguin, 1990, preface.

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

Willa Cather

O Pioneers!

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Willa Cather
Source
O Pioneers!
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1913 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

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

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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O happy race of mortals, if your hearts are ruled, as is the universe, by Love!

Boethius

The Consolation of Philosophy

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Love

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Boethius
Source
The Consolation of Philosophy
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Latin
Time
523 520s 6th century
Era
Middle Ages
Authentication Score 0
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Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus. De Consolatione Philosophiae [The Consolation of Philosophy]. 523, bk. 2, poem VIII, l. 28-30.

Current Citation

Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy. Translated by Victor Watts. Penguin, 1999, bk. 2, poem VIII, l. 28-30.

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To no man will we sell, or deny, or delay, right or justice.

Magna Carta

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Topic
Rule of law Justice
Source
Magna Carta
Medium
Political charter
Genre
Political literature
Language
Latin
Time
1215 1210s 13th century
Era
Middle Ages
Authentication Score 1
Original Citation

Magna Carta Libertatum [Great Charter of Freedoms]. 5 June 1215, 40.

Current Citation

Magna Carta. Translated by David A. Carpenter. Penguin, 2015, no. 40.