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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history, for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. - Aristotle Each generation gathers together the imperishable children of the past, and increases them by new sons of light, alike radiant with immortality. - George Bancroft It is when the hour of the conflict is over that history comes to a right understanding of the strife, and is ready to exclaim, "Lo, God is here, and we knew him not!" - George Bancroft More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. - John Barth 1. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. 2. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. 3. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. 4. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. - Charles Austin Beard, his summary of the lessons of history, in "Reader's Digest," February, 1941 The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars. - Charles Austin Beard Happy is the nation without a history. - Marchese de Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Trattato dei Delitti e delle Pene (introduction), (Treatise of Crimes and of Punishment) The mystery of history is an insoluble problem. - Henry Ward Beecher Legend remains victorious in spite of history. - Sarah Bernhardt History is a pageant, not a philosophy. - Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta--The Muse of History History is simply a piece of paper covered with print; the main thing is still to make history, not to write it. - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples. - 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, On the Study and Use of History (letter 2) The dignity of history. - 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, On the Study and Use of History (letter V) Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries. - Christian Nestell Bovee All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present. - Fernand Braudel If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. - Warren Buffett What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great? - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto III, st. 48) And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 108) All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once. - Thomas Carlyle, quoted in Froude's "Early Life of Carlyle" At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet. - Thomas Carlyle The whole past is the procession of the present. - Thomas Carlyle Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. - Thomas Carlyle, Cromwell's Letter and Speeches--Introduction (ch. I) History is the essence of innumerable Biographies. - Thomas Carlyle, Essays--On History 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 can be called Thought. - Thomas Carlyle, Essays--On History In a certain sense all men are historians. - Thomas Carlyle, Essays--On History Displaying page 1 of 6 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6
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