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He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

Here is a shared memory that we didn't share, forgot to share, for almost ninety years.

Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is history! Ecce historia!

He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

His sumptuous tents, and those of his satraps, afforded an immense booty to the conqueror; and an incident is mentioned which proves the rustic but martial ignorance of the legions in the elegant superfluities of life. A bag of shining leather, filled with pearls, fell into the hands of a private soldier; he carefully preserved the bag, but he threw away its contents, judging that whatever was of no use could not possibly be of any value.

[H]istorians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous.

Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.

Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They call upon it to explain the problems of their own time, to give to those problems a philosophical context, a continuum in which they may be reduced to proportion and perhaps made intelligible.

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

History is an accumulation of error.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

History: A distillation of rumor.

History, facts and truth are all Divine Products, and must prevail.

History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

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.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.