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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
North
Conquer
Creates
Borrows
Spread
Conquers
South
Summary
Civilization
Spreads
History
Civilizations
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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
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