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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

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The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

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A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

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Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.

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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

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It's so damned humiliating.

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To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

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History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

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Language is the archives of history.

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

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The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

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It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

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