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Funny Love Quotes Biography

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Read no history, nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.—DISRAELI

    It seems to me much better to read a man's own writing than to read what others say about him, especially when the man is first-rate and the "others" are third-rate.—GEORGE ELIOT, Life and Letters

    The real source of all biography is the confession of the man himself to somebody.—EMERSON, Lectures

    There is properly no History; only Biography.—EMERSON, History

    The poor dear dead have been laid out in vain;
    Turn'd into cash, they are laid out again!—THOMAS HOOD, On Reading a Diary Lately Published

    A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.JOHN MORLEY, Emerson

    What would become of all historical research and all biographies if they were always written with consideration for people's feelings?—R. H. SCHAUFFLER,
    The Unknown Brahms

    Noble examples stir us up to noble actions, and the very history of large and public souls inspires a man with generous thoughts.—SENECA

    After my death I wish no other herald,
    No other speaker of my living actions,
    To keep mine honour from corruption,
    But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII

    A man who leaves memoirs, whether well or badly written, provided they be sincere, renders a service to future psychologists and writers.—SIENKIEWICZ, Without Dogma

    A good portrait is a kind of biography, and neither painter nor biographer can carry out his task satisfactorily unless he be admitted behind the scenes.—ALEXANDER SMITH, Dreamthorp

    Make bare the poor dead secrets of his heart,
    Strip the stark-naked soul, that all may peer,
    Spy, smirk, sniff, snap, snort, snivel, snarl, and sneer.—SWINBURNE, In Sepulcretis

    In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.—ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Doctor Thorne