"All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences."
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"Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard."
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"Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us."
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"Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me."
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"There is no history of how bad became better."
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"Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France."
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"It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them."
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"History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass."
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"Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives."
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"The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history."
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"To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory."
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"History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity."
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"History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably."
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"What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end."
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"And history becomes legend and legend becomes history."
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"Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose."
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"The authors of all our misfortune."
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"Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat."
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"History repeats herself."
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"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."
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