"I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past."
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"For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species."
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"A woman's whole life is a history of the affections."
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"History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man."
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"Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results."
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"History is a bath of blood."
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"I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die."
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"Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth."
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"Language is the archives of history."
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"There is properly no history, only biography."
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"Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it."
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"The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed."
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"History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men."
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"It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of."
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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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"History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times."
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"A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration."
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"Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords."
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"There is a delight in the hardy life of the open."
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"It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally."
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