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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

Miguel de Cervantes
Past, Example, Action

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.

Miguel de Cervantes
Past, History, Cost
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.270, Wordsworth Editions

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

Miguel de Cervantes
Get Well, Recovery, Past
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1855). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha: With Illus. by Schoff”, p.234

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

Miguel de Cervantes
Mother, Past, Hatred

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