For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
History does not always repeat itself.
History does not always repeat itself.
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it read more
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
