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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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From time to time historians need to be shocked.- Peter Burke
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Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the extraordinary events and omit just what we want,–the every-day life of each particular time and country.
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Give the historians something to write about.
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Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.- Ambrose Bierce
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary.
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Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
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Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.
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Happy people have no history.- Leo Tolstoy
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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Her ample page rich with the spoils of time.
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Historian. A broad — gauge gossip.
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Historian: A broad-gauge gossip.
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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