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Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,--teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good. - Samuel Smiles The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others. - Samuel Smiles My advice is to consult the lives of other men as we would a looking-glass, and from thence fetch examples for our own imitation. - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) Biography lends to death a new terror. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand to construct the skeleton. - Robert Aris Willmott I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections. - William Wordsworth Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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