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[W]hen a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.
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1. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. 2. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. 3. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. 4. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
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A boy who hears a lesson in history ended by the beauty of peace, and how Napoleon brought ruin upon the world and that he should be forever cursed, will not long have much confidence in his teacher. He wants to hear more about the fighting and less about the peace negotiations.
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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.- George Santayana
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A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian.
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A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.
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A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.’ Mark Twain
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A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.
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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.- Socrates
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A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures.
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A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn”t know history. He don”t know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
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A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
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A mere compilation of facts presents only the skeleton of History; we do but little for her if we cannot invest her with life, clothe her in the habiliments of her day, and enable her to call forth the sympathies of succeeding generations.
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A million thanks to Steve for sharing some of his fantastic collection with me!| History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.
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A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.
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A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
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A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
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A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
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