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All things are engaged in writing their history...Not a foot steps into the snow, or along the ground, but prints in characters more or less lasting, ...more

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All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

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There is properly no history only biography.

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I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has ...more

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We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret exp...more