History and experience prove that the most passionate characters are the most fanatically rigid in their feelings of duty, when their passion has been trained to act in that direction. J. S. Mill.
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought. Carlyle.
History ensures for youth the understanding 25 of the ancients. Diodorus.
History has only to do with what is true, and what is only probable should be relegated to the imaginary domain of romance and poetical fiction. (?)
History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. Shelley.
History is always written ex post facto.
History is an impertinence and an injury, if it be anything more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming. Emerson.
History is an imprisoned epic, nay, an imprisoned 30 psalm and prophecy. Carlyle.
History is but a fable agreed on. Napoleon.
History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy. Garfield.