Famous quotes containing the words burn, halo, history and/or ashes:
“Lucky Man,
be sure of this.
Your crimes
don’t burn me
as much as these clever words
empty of all good feeling.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“Man is no starre, but a quick coal
Of mortall fire:
Who blows it not, nor doth controll
A faint desire,
Lets his own ashes choke his soul.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)