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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. "

G. M. Trevelyan

Land , Journey

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" 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

Things , Impossible

" Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. "

G. M. Trevelyan

Education , Reading

" 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 and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow. "

G. M. Trevelyan

Truth , Lying

" 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

Past , Real

" I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. "

G. M. Trevelyan

Fitness

" Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves. "

G. M. Trevelyan

History , Past

" What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every good book from its author, even if he knows from the beginning exactly what he wants to say. A limpid style is invariably the result of hard labour, and the easily flowing connection of sentence with sentence and paragraph with paragraph has always been won by the sweat of the brow. "

G. M. Trevelyan

Writing , Book

" 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

Intellect , Evidence

" One half who graduate from college never read another book. "

G. M. Trevelyan

Funny , Inspirational

" After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value. "

G. M. Trevelyan

Hiking , Usual

" 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

Men

" A little man often cast a long shadow. "

G. M. Trevelyan

Men , Long

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