Thomas Carlyle on History
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βHistory, a distillation of rumor.β
βAll history β¦ is an inarticulate Bible.β
βHistory is the essence of innumerable Biographies.β
βHappy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.β
βNo great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.β
βHistories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.β
βHistory, 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.β