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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-trevelyan/i-never-knew-a-man-go-for-an-honest-day-s-walk-for-whatever-distance/)

[G. M. Trevelyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-trevelyan/)

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## More by G. M. Trevelyan

> [Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-trevelyan/since-history-has-no-properly-scientific-value-its-only-purpose-is/)

[G. M. Trevelyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-trevelyan/)

> [“The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today... The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-trevelyan/the-dead-were-and-are-not-their-place-knows-them-no-more-and-is-ours/)

[G. M. Trevelyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-trevelyan/)

> [Village cricket spread fast through the land.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-trevelyan/village-cricket-spread-fast-through-the-land/)

[G. M. Trevelyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-trevelyan/)

> [The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-trevelyan/the-best-historian-is-he-who-combines-knowledge-of-the-evidence-with/)

[G. M. Trevelyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-trevelyan/)

> [Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-trevelyan/social-history-might-be-defined-negatively-as-the-history-of-a-people/)

[G. M. Trevelyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-trevelyan/)

> [Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-trevelyan/village-cricket-spread-fast-through-the-land-in-those-days-before-it/)

[G. M. Trevelyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-trevelyan/)

> [Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-trevelyan/many-who-burnt-heretics-in-the-ordinary-way-of-their-business-were/)

[G. M. Trevelyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-trevelyan/)

> [Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-trevelyan/disinterested-intellectual-curiosity-is-the-life-blood-of-real/)

[G. M. Trevelyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-trevelyan/)

> [What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-trevelyan/what-is-easy-to-read-has-been-difficult-to-write-the-labour-of/)

[G. M. Trevelyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-trevelyan/)

> [A little man often cast a long shadow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-trevelyan/a-little-man-often-cast-a-long-shadow/)

[G. M. Trevelyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-trevelyan/)

> [The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-trevelyan/the-poetry-of-history-lies-in-the-quasi-miraculous-fact-that-once-on/)

[G. M. Trevelyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-trevelyan/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-trevelyan/there-is-no-orthodoxy-in-walking-it-is-a-land-of-many-paths-and-no/)

[G. M. Trevelyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-trevelyan/)

> [History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-trevelyan/history-is-the-open-bible-we-historians-are-not-priests-to-expound-it/)

[G. M. Trevelyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-trevelyan/)

> ["History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-trevelyan/history-repeats-itself-and-history-never-repeats-itself-are-about/)

[G. M. Trevelyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-trevelyan/)

> [And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-trevelyan/and-how-fascinating-history-is-the-long-variegated-pageant-of-man-s/)

[G. M. Trevelyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-trevelyan/)

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