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Thomas Carlyle
: No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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There is properly no history; only biography.
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Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
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Anne Carson :
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She doesn't get to say much in the official biography — I believe they are out of wine, etc., practical things — watching with one eye as he goes about the world calling himself The Son Of Man.
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Furthermore, I am a prisoner of my own biography: I can't help but view the American experience through the lens of a black man of mixed heritage, forever mindful of how generations of people who looked like me were subjugated and stigmatized, and the subtle and not so subtle ways that race and class continue to shape our lives.
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It is not difficult to get away into retirement; and there live upon your own convictions; nor is it difficult to mix with men and follow their convictions; but to enter into the world; and there live firmly and fearlessly according to your own conscience; that is Christian greatness.
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Henry Miller :
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The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.
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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
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One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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