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Thomas Carlyle on History

1795–1881 Scotland

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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840)

All history is a Bible—a thing stated in words by me more than once.

History a distillation of Rumour.

The French Revolution. A History (1837)

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.

History, a distillation of rumor.

All history … is an inarticulate Bible.

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