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History Quotes
Quotes and Quotations Index
Here are The History Quotes.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
(Thomas Carlyle : Essay on History)
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
(Carlyle : Heroes and Hero-Worship)
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History is philosophy teaching by examples.
(Dionysius : 40-8 B.C.)
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The history of the great events of this world is scarcely more than the history of crimes.
(Voltaire : 1694-1778)
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History -- which is, indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
(Edward Gibbon : 1737-1794 : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)
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There is properly no history : only biography.
(Emerson)
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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
(George Bernard Shaw)
- After hearing two eyewitness accounts of the same accident or incident, you begin to wonder about history.
(Anonymous)
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