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International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.
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Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.
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Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
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Humans
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An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.
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the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.
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Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.
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It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.
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Greatness
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somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.
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Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.
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Literature History
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A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
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History
Doe
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The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.
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General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.
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historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.
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Historical
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We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.
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Heroism
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History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.
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Political
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Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.
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History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern.
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For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.
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History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.
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For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.
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People
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My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.
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Eye
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The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he is perpetually confronted with his own humiliating inability to interpret his material correctly; he is, in a sense that no other writer is, in bondage to that material.
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All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a danger. In much the same way healthy nations are interested in their history, but a morbid preoccupation with past glories is a sign that something is wrong with the constitution of the State.
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Healthy
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The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics.
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