"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."

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Source : G.M. Trevelyan (1949). “CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS”

G. M. Trevelyan

#People Quotes #History Quotes #Priests Quotes

“No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights”
“If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody.”
“There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - were talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.”
“I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps, I have read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His Day is marching on.”
“I don't believe in predestined fate. The future is what we choose to create.”
“Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.”
“Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God; their own policy, and cast themselves on the wisdom of God; their own righteousness, and expect all from the pure mercy of God in Christ, which act of faith is so pleasing to God, that such a soul shall never be ashamed.”
“It's easier to die when you have lived, than it is to die when you haven't. So I say to all young people, go make memories; beautiful memories. Because when the time comes to go, you won't go alone.”

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