I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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 a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
History is the distillation of rumour.
In a certain sense all men are historians.
History is the new poetry.
For, strictly considered, 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, are essential materials?
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, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.
History after all is the true poetry.
Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
History is a great dust heap.
History: A distillation of rumor.
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.
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.
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 may be called thought.
The whole past is the procession of the present.
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