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History begins in novel and ends in essay.

Thomas B. Macaulay / Former Secretary At War
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History begins in novel and ends in essay.

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Reform, that we may preserve.

Thomas B. Macaulay Former Secretary At War

Boswell is the first of biographers.

Thomas B. Macaulay Former Secretary At War

Language is the machine of the poet.

Thomas B. Macaulay Former Secretary At War

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

Thomas B. Macaulay Former Secretary At War

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Anwar Sadat Former President Of Egypt

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

A. L. Rowse Author

Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

Albert Camus Author

It was a needed instrument to spread abroad the truth of a new gospel to woman, and I could not withhold my hand to stay the work I had begun. I saw not the end from the beginning and dreamed where to my propositions to society would lead me.

Amelia Bloomer

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . . . But the tale of history forms a very strong bulwark against the stream of time, and checks in some measure its irresistible flow, so that, of all things done in it, as many as history has taken over it secures and binds together, and does not allow them to slip away into the abyss of oblivion.

Anna Komnene Physician

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

Annie Besant Member Of The London School Board

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