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Happy is the nation without a history.

Cesare Di Bonesana Beccaria Topic: History

History is a pageant, not a philosophy.

Augustine Birrell Topic: History

I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

Henry St John Bolingbroke Topic: History

The dignity of history.

Henry St John Bolingbroke Topic: History

What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great?

Lord Byron Topic: History

And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

Lord Byron Topic: History

All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once.

Thomas Carlyle Topic: History

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

Thomas Carlyle Topic: History

History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.

Thomas Carlyle Topic: 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 Topic: History

In a certain sense all men are historians.

Thomas Carlyle Topic: History

History, a distillation of rumor.

Thomas Carlyle Topic: History

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

Thomas Carlyle Topic: History

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.

Thomas Carlyle Topic: History

What more would you have? He has invented history.

Marie Anne Du Deffand Topic: History

The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.

Dionysius Of Heraclea Topic: History

Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.

Benjamin Disraeli Topic: History

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban Topic: History

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Topic: History

There is properly no history, only biography.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Topic: History

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