Troops of heroes undistinguished die.--ADDISON.
Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be
a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect
for some person of his own stamp.--GOETHE.
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.--SENECA.
We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our
lives.--JAMES ELLIS.
Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody; and to that person
whatever he says has an enhanced value.--EMERSON.
HISTORY.--History maketh a young man to be old, without either
wrinkles or gray hairs,--privileging him with the experience of age,
without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.--THOMAS
FULLER.
History teaches everything, even the future.--LAMARTINE.
It is when the hour of the conflict is over that history comes to a
right understanding of the strife, and is ready to exclaim, "Lo, God
is here, and we knew him not!"--BANCROFT.
This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous
actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign
them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in
the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base
actions.--TACITUS.
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue
always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the
world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
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