Biography Quotes
These are some of the best 'Biography' quotations and sayings.
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A life that is worth writing at all, is worth writing minutely and truthfully.
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Biographies of great, but especially of good men, are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels - teaching high living, high thinking, and energetic actions for their own and the world's good.
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Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
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Biography is the only true history.
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Biography is the personal and home aspect of history.
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Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. - Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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Great men have often the shortest biographies. - Their real life is in their books or deeds.
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History can be frmed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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Most biographies are of little worth. - They are panegyrics, not lives. - The object is, not to let down the hero; and consequently what is most human, most genuine, most characteristic in his history, is excluded. - No department of literature is so false as biography.
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My advice is, to consult the lives of other men as we would a looking glass, and from thence fetch examples for our own imitation.
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Now the Poet cannot die, nor leave his music as of old, but round him ere he scarce be cold begins the scandal and the cry.
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Of all studies, the most delightful and useful is biography. - The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. - No history was ever true; but lives which I have read, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, the utility of truth.
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One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
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One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons able and willing to furnish the record.
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The poor dear dead have been laid out in vain; tumed into cash, they are laid out again.
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The remains of great and good men, like Elijah's mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by their survivors; that as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in their benefit.
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There is properly no history; only biography.
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