To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
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I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
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The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.
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Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.
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The historian is a prophet in reverse.
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Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.
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The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent
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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
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I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident.
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You've got to understand their reasoning. They think of this historian as one of their pocket-people, whom they feel they can count on.
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Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect pope, presidents for the perfect historian. Writers hunger for the perfect reviewer.
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I'm very excited, especially traveling with the president, who is a historian on Scotland.
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The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
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I like to tell people that I discovered (Hansen),.. Alas, he was already discovered when I first met him. He is an excellent historian who has made an enviable reputation for himself.
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The Foundation for the National Archives is a valuable partner with the National Archives in helping to make history relevant and exciting to all Americans,.. The Records of Achievement Award, given by the Foundation, helps underscore the importance of using primary sources to achieve this goal. I am delighted that Mr. Brokaw, distinguished broadcast journalist and historian, has agreed to accept the award this year. His books and his reporting have shown a keen understanding of American history and a respect for unearthing primary sources to tell the story.
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Faults ought no more to be concealed than virtues, and that, whatever it may be in a painter, it is no excellence in an historian to throw a veil on deformities.
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The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian
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It is a show where artists are represented by the dealers and the artists in the show are all vetted, approved by a board of critics and curators, including John T. Spike, a noted historian of Italian art.
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[Yale architectural historian Vince Scully arose with other leaders to forcefully denounce the plan.] The removal of the [courthouse],.. Would serve two cataclysmic purposes, since it would both cut the side of the [New Haven] Green and, in the manner made famous by Orwell in his 1984, cut a central piece out of our civic memory, through which our dignities as men are developed and sustained.
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