"You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is."
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"Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection."
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"I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance."
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"Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?"
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"[T]he historian and the detective have much in common."
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"History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory."
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"Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians."
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"The first lesson of history is that evil is good."
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"All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man."
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"The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do."
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"Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written."
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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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"In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate."
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"Our best history is still poetry."
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"Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales."
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"Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue."
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"The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation."
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"We live ruins amid ruins."
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"I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is."
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"Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books."
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