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History Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
- History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
- History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what…
- Biography is the only true history.
- The whole past is the procession of the present.
- Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose…
- Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
- History is a great dust heap.
- Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
- Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!
- History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
- Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.
- Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no,…
- Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.
- It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
- Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
- History: A distillation of rumor.
- All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
- What is all knowledge except recorded experience, and a product of history?
- Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
- History is the distillation of rumour.
- History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
- In a certain sense all men are historians.
- History is the new poetry.
- What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion,…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
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- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
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- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
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