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You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
Leopold Von Ranke
History
,
Future
,
Judge
He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
Leopold Von Ranke
Eyes
,
Before
,
Himself
Every generation is equidistant from God.
Leopold Von Ranke
God
,
Generation
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Nationality:
German
Type:
Historian
Born:
December 21
, 1795
Died:
May 23
, 1886
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