Henry David Thoreau History Quotations
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- Edward Gibbon
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Thomas Carlyle
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- Voltaire
- Henry Adams
- Simon Schama
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Mark Twain
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Johan Huizinga
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- George Santayana
- Antony Beevor
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Thomas Jefferson
- Albert Camus
- David Mccullough
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Knowledge Quotes
History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?
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Hands Quotes
In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, "memoirs to serve for a history," which is but materials to serve for a mythology.