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"I have read somewhere or other,--in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,--that history is philosophy teaching by examples."
On the Study and Use of History. Letter 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The dignity of history."
On the Study and Use of History. Letter v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word."
Letter to Mr. Pope.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain