G. M. Trevelyan Quotes
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A little man often cast a long shadow.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
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"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
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Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
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In those days, before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!
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We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry.
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Their demands were limited and practical, and for that reasonthey successfully initiated a movement that led in the end to yet undreamt-of liberties for all.
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There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.
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We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
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And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.
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History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.