History is only a confused heap of facts. 2459 Lord Chesterfield: Letters to his Son. London, Feb. 5, 1750. History, the evidence of time, the light of truth, the life of memory, the directress of life, the herald of antiquity, committed to immortality. 2460 Cicero: On the Character of the Orator. History shows you prospects by starlight, or, at best, by the waning moon. 2461 Rufus Choate: Addresses and Orations. Importance of Illustrating New England History. History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy. 2462 Garfield: The Province of History. (Williams History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires. 2463 Garfield: The Works of James Abram Garfield. Speech, House of Representatives, June 25, 1864. The world's history is a divine poem of which the history of every nation is a canto and of every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and, though there have been mingled the discords of roaring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian- the humble listener-there has been a divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come. 2464 Garfield: The Province of History. (Williams History, which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. 2465 Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 1776. On Poland. History shows that the majority of men who have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. 2466 Heine: Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. History owes its excellence more to the writer's manner than to the materials of which it is composed. 2467 The history of the past is a mere puppet-show. A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in again. You look for something new, and lo! another little man comes out, and blows another little trumpet, and goes in again. And it is all over. Goldsmith: Life of Richard Nash, Esq. 2468 Longfellow: Prose Works. Appendix II. The Blank-Book of a Country Schoolmaster. XV. History. History is clarified experience. 2469 Lowell Democracy and Other Addresses. Address, Chelsea, Mass., Dec. 22, 1885. Books and Libraries. Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value; and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty. 2470 Macaulay: Essays. History. (Edinburgh Review, May, 1828.) History, at least in its state of ideal perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy. It impresses general truths on the mind by a vivid representation of particular characters and incidents. 2471 Macaulay Essays. Hallam's Constitutional History. (Edinburgh Review, September, 1828.) All history that is not contemporary is suspicious; as the books of the Sibyls and Trismegistus, and so many others that have obtained credence in the world, are false, and will be found to be false to the end of time. It is not thus with contemporary authors. 2472 Pascal: Thoughts. Ch. xv., ii. (Wight, History is, after all, the crystallization of popular beliefs. 2473 Donn Piatt: Memories of the Men who Saved the Union. Abraham Lincoln. History ought to be guided by strict truth; and worthy actions require nothing more. 2474 Pliny the Younger: Letters. Bk. vii. Letter xxxiii. (Melmoth and Bosanquet, Translators.) For to oratory and poetry, unless of the highest degree of eloquence, little thanks are given; but history, in whatever manner executed, is always entertaining. 2475 Pliny the Younger: Letters. Bk. v. Letter viii. (Melmoth and Bosanquet, Translators.) As the epic poem and the romance may be made to contain the floating materials of all knowledge, their mother, history, may still more easily be made into the firm pulpit of every moral and religious opinion; and every department of morality, moral theology, moral philosophy and casuistry, finds its leader in ancient history. 2476 Richter: Levana. Ninth Fragment, or Key-Stone. History, like religion, unites all learning and power, especially ancient history; that is, the history of the nations of the youthful world Grecian and Roman, Jewish and early Christian. 2477 Richter: Levana. Ninth Fragment, or Key-Stone. History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow-citizen of all peoples. 2478 Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish Priest. History. No. I. (Hapgood, Translator.) History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. The past, like an inspired rhapsodist, fills the theatre of everlasting generations with her harmony. 2479 Shelley: Quoted by Augustine Birrell in Obiter Must not a great history be always an epic ? 2480 Walter C. Smith: Books which have Influenced Me. I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples. Henry St. John (Viscount Bolingbroke): On the Study and Use of History. Letter ii. 2481 Dignity of history. 2482 Horace Walpole: Advertisement to Letters to Sir Horace Mann. History itself is nothing more than legend and romance. HOAR-FROST -see Winter. The beauty of hoar-frost is nothing by itself, nothing on naked rock or mountain, nothing in the streets of the city, and out at sea it only is visible on the ship's cordage, if by accident it may whiten it for awhile; but on sylvan landscape it settles like a fairy decoration. No human work is delicate enough to be compared with such delicacy as this, no human artificer in silver or in ivory ever wrought such visible magic as these millions of tiny spears that thrust out points of unimaginable fineness from the lightest spray's utmost extremity. The perfect beauty of this adornment is visible only on the thinnest and lightest; on the dark thin twigs of the birch that bend under the weight of a robin, or on the slender, long sprays of the bird-cherry tree that the little birds love so well. 2484 Hamerton: The Sylvan Year. February. HOLIDAYS. I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth. 2485 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Speech, House of Commons, Feb. 29, 1864. HOME -see Nations, Travellers. It matters little where our geography falls, since our planet is our post but for a century at most, our inn for the night; yet the heart loves to associate itself with some spot ancestral and dear, and cail it home. 2486 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. V. Immortality. Home. Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy. Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 2487 Home, 2488 the nursery of the Infinite. William Ellery Channing: Note-Book. Children. I have always felt that the best security for civilization is the dwelling, and that upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends more than anything else the improvement of mankind. Such dwellings are the nursery of all domestic virtues, and without a becoming home the exercise of those virtues is impossible. 2489 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Speech, July 18, 1874. Opening of the Shaftesbury Park Estate. There is no sanctuary of virtue like home. 2490 Edward Everett: Orations and Speeches. A Discourse on the Importance to Practical Men of Scientific Knowledge, and on the Encouragements to its Pursuits. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. 2491 2492 Johnson: The Rambler. No. 68. Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners. Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. XVII. The Perfect Peace. A man is always nearest to his good when at home, and farthest from it when away. 2493 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Gold-Foil. A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences. 2494 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Gold-Foil. Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other. 2495 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Gold-Foil. Home, in one form or another, is the great object of life. No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift. 2497 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Gold-Foil The sweetest type of heaven is home. 2498 HONESTY Woman. Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Gold-Foil. see Conscience, Honor, Necessity, Riches, Prefer loss to dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time, the latter will bring you lasting remorse. 2499 Chilo: (F. A. Paley, Translator in Greek Wit.) A rich man is an honest man, no thanks to him, for he I would be a double knave to cheat mankind when he had no need of it. 2500 Daniel De Foe: Serious Reflections. Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame. 2501 Owen Felltham: Resolves. Pt. i. Of Resolution. An honest man is respected by all parties. 2502 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 151. Honesty is not greater where elegance is less. 2503 Johnson: Works. IX. 38. (Oxford edition, 1825.) Honesty, in its purpose, looks but little outside of itself; honor generously aims to deserve the good opinion of the best, finding keener anguish in the moral stain or blemish than in grievous bodily wounds. Honesty guards its own goods, and loves self-interest, while it gallantly protects the weak, relieves the oppressed from the grasp of cruel force, redresses the injuries of others, or defends its own pure dignity. 2504 Albert Mathews: A Bundle of Papers by Paul Honesty needs no pains to set itself off. 2505 Edward Moore: The Gamester. Act i. An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. 2506 Shakespeare: King Henry IV. Pt. ii. Act v. Sc. 1. Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of two thousand. 2507 Shakespeare: Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. Every man has his fault, and honesty is his; I ha' told him on't, but I could ne'er get him from't. 2508 Shakespeare: Timon of Athens. Act iii. Sc. 1. For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar. 2509 Shakespeare: As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 3. Shakespeare: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1 I am myself indifferent honest. |