Brahmin/history

Famous quotes containing the words brahmin and/or history:

“They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt,
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

The strong gods pine for my abode,
And pine in vain the sacred Seven;
But thou, meek lover of the good!
Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)