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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 16 of 40 · ~237 words · public domain

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His personal graces, for the moment, took the rank of virtues

His dogged, continuous capacity for work

Historical scepticism may shut its eyes to evidence

History is a continuous whole of which we see only fragments

History is but made up of a few scattered fragments

History never forgets and never forgives

History has not too many really important and emblematic men

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper

Holland was afraid to give a part, although offering the whole

Holland, England, and America, are all links of one chain

Holy Office condemned all the inhabitants of the Netherlands

Holy institution called the Inquisition

Honor good patriots, and to support them in venial errors

Hope delayed was but a cold and meagre consolation

Hope deferred, suddenly changing to despair

How many more injured by becoming bad copies of a bad ideal

Hugo Grotius

Human nature in its meanness and shame

Human ingenuity to inflict human misery

Human fat esteemed the sovereignst remedy (for wounds)

Humanizing effect of science upon the barbarism of war

Humble ignorance as the safest creed

Humility which was but the cloak to his pride

Hundred thousand men had laid down their lives by her decree

I did never see any man behave himself as he did

I know how to console myself

I am a king that will be ever known not to fear any but God

I hope and I fear

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