Famous History Quotes Part – 36

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What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way.

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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

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What is history but a fable agreed upon?

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What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

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What more would you have? He has invented history. [Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l’histoire.]

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What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History’s purchased page to call them great?

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.- Shailer Mathews

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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

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When the age of the Vikings came to a close, they must have sensed it. Probably, they gathered together one evening, slapped each other on the back and said, Hey, good job.

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When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

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When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

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When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

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While we read history we make history. George William Curtis quotes

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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.- Cicero

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Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.

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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth.

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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

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With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man’s past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.


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