That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
Man is remembered by his deeds.
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.
Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.
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