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The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow.— WASHINGTON IRVING — The Sketch Book.
Westminster Abbey. There are heroes in evil as well as in good.— LA ROCHEFOUCAULD — Maxims. No. 194.
Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, - a hero.— LONGFELLOW — Hyperion. Bk. I. Ch. 1.
'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our father's graves.— LOWELL — The Present Crisis. St. 15.
See the conquering hero comes.— DR. THOS. MORELL — Words used by
HANDEL in Joshua, and Judas Maccabæus (introduced in late versions of LEE'S Rival Queens).
I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples. LORD BOLINGBROKE (Henry St. John)— On the Study and Use of History
Letter 2. Also quoted by— CARLYLE — Essays.
History. The dignity of history. LORD BOLINGBROKE (Henry St. John)— On the Study and Use of History
Letter V. See also FIELDING— Tom Jones. Bk. XI Ch. II.
And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 108.
What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great? S.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto III. St. 48.
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.— CARLYLE — Life of Frederick the Great. Bk. XVI. Ch. I.
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.— CARLYLE — Cromwell's Letters and Speeches. Introduction. Ch. I.
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.— CARLYLE — Essays. On History.
History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.— CARLYLE — Essays. On History.
In a certain sense all men are historians.— CARLYLE — Essays. On History.
of the world.— BENJ. DISRAELI — Speech. May, 1865.
And read their history in a nation's eyes.— GRAY — Elegy in a Country Churchyard. St. 16.
The long historian of my country's woes.— HOMER — Odyssey. Bk. 3. L. 142.
Pope's trans. History casts its shadow far into the land of song.— LONGFELLOW — Outre-Mer.
Ancient Spanish Ballads. They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.— LONGFELLOW — The Belfry of Bruges. St. 9.
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.— MACAULAY — History of England. Vol. I. Ch. I.
[History] hath triumphed over Time, which besides it, nothing but Eternity hath triumphed over.— SIR WALTER RALEIGH — The History of
the World. Preface. In a word, we may gather out of history a policy no less wise than eternal; by the comparison and application of other men's forepassed miseries with our own like errors and ill deservings.— SIR WALTER RALEIGH — History of the
World. Preface. Par. 9. History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.— VOLTAIRE — L'Ingenu. Ch. X. 1767.
Anything but history, for history must be false.— HORACE WALPOLE — Walpoliana. No. CXLI.
Those old credulities, to nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of History.— WORDSWORTH — Memorials of a Tour in
Italy. 1V. At Rome
Præcipium munus annalium reor, ne virtutes sileantur, utque pravis dictis, factisque ex posteritate et infamiâ metus sit. The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.— TACITUS — Annales. III. 65.
L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs. History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. VOLTAIRE L'Ingénu. X. Der Historiker ist ein rückwärts gekehrter Prophet. The historian is a prophet looking backwards.— SCHLEGEL — Athenæum. Berlin.
I. 2. 20. Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht. The world's history is the world's judgment.— SCHILLER — Resignation. 17.