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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = There is properly no history, only biography. Emerson—Essays. History. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Carlyle}}) The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Gibbon—Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. (1776) Ch. III. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Voltaire) And read their history in a nation's eyes. Gray—Elegy in a Country Churchyard. St. 16. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = History | page = 367 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The long historian of my country's woes. Homer—Odyssey. Bk. III. L. 142 | note = {{sc|Pope}}'s trans. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = History | page = 367 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = History casts its shadow far into the land of song. f | author = Longfellow | work = Outre-Mer. Ancient Spanish Ballads. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = History | page = 367 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again. | author = Longfellow | work = The Belfry of Bruges. St. 9. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = History | page = 367 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history. Macaulay—History of England. Vol. I. ' ' | seealso = (See also {{sc|Bolingbroke) Happy the people whose annals are tiresome. Montesquieu. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = History | page = 367 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = (History] hath triumphed over Time, which besides it, nothing but Eternity hath triumphed over. Sir Walter Raleigh—The History of the World. Preface. | author =  | work =  | place =  | note =  | topic = History | page = 367 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = In a word, we may gather out of history a policy no less wise than eternal; by the comparison and application of other men's forepassed miseries with our own like errors and ill deservings. Sir Walter Raleigh—History of the World Preface. Par. EX. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Tacitus) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = History | page = 367 }}