"The novelist must look on humanity without partiality……" — Goldwin Smith
"The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party."
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32 Quotes by Goldwin Smith
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Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
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The father of confederation is deadlock.
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We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other…
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The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
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Above all nations is humanity,
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Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into…
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Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
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There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and…
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Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly…
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The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to…
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The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual…
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No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist…
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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old…
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the…
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Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of…
— Michael N. Castle
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I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
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The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community…
— John Henrik Clarke
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It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does…
— Chuck Close
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I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats…
— Stephen Ambrose
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As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native…
— U Thant
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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher…
— H.G. Wells
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