Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Writing Quotes, History Quotes

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

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Our best history is still poetry.

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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.

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It's so damned humiliating.

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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

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Happy people have no history.

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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

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History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

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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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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

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History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

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Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

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

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The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

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