D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Europe Quotes, History Quotes

The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.

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It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

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History paints the human heart.

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It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.

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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing.

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The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

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Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

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History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

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Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

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The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day ... the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.

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There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

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