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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause read more
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.
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the read more
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.
And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.
And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up read more
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
History: A distillation of rumor.
History: A distillation of rumor.
History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers read more
History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
