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G M Trevelyan Quotes

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses Picture Quote #1

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people Picture Quote #1

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that the one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I shall have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers Picture Quote #1

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future Picture Quote #1

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! Picture Quote #1

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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One half who graduate from college never read another book Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value Picture Quote #1

Village cricket spread fast through the land Picture Quote #1

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right Picture Quote #1

A little man often cast a long shadow Picture Quote #1

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We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers Picture Quote #1

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization Picture Quote #1

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility Picture Quote #1

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out Picture Quote #1

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading Picture Quote #1

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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you (G M Trevelyan Quotes) 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 (G M Trevelyan Quotes) 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. (G M Trevelyan Quotes) The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. (G M Trevelyan Quotes) Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people (G M Trevelyan Quotes) I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that the one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I shall have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again. (G M Trevelyan Quotes) 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 (G M Trevelyan Quotes) The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers (G M Trevelyan Quotes) Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future (G M Trevelyan Quotes) If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! (G M Trevelyan Quotes) The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses (G M Trevelyan Quotes) 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 (G M Trevelyan Quotes) One half who graduate from college never read another book (G M Trevelyan Quotes) 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 (G M Trevelyan Quotes) After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value (G M Trevelyan Quotes) Village cricket spread fast through the land (G M Trevelyan Quotes) I have two doctors, my left leg and my right (G M Trevelyan Quotes) A little man often cast a long shadow (G M Trevelyan Quotes) We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers (G M Trevelyan Quotes) Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization (G M Trevelyan Quotes) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility (G M Trevelyan Quotes) Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out (G M Trevelyan Quotes) Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading (G M Trevelyan Quotes)