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Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him. - Joseph Addison The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease. - Joseph Addison Some one calls biography the home aspect of history. - Henry Ward Beecher A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power. - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man. - Thomas Carlyle 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 history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it. - Thomas Carlyle One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography. - William Ellery Channing Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin Unwillingness to acknowledge whatever is good in religion foreign to our own has always been a very common trait of human nature; but it seems to me neither generous nor just. - Mrs. Lydia Maria Child Bigotry murders religion to frighten folks with her ghost. - Charles Caleb Colton Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer. - Charles Caleb Colton To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes is easier than to think. - William Cowper Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven. - Owen Felltham (Feltham) As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern. - Henry Fielding Mr. T. sees religion, not as a sphere; but as a line; and it is the identical line in which he is moving. He is like an African buffalo,--sees right forward, nothing on the right hand or on the left. - John Foster (1) Bigotry is chronic dogmatism. - Horace Greeley Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. - Robert Hall The bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you put upon it, the more it will contract. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Biography, especially the biography of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions from poverty and obscurity to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth. - Walter Savage Landor The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it. - Ephraim Gotthold Lessing A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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