Incense/history

Famous quotes containing the words incense and/or history:

    “You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    “A people without history
    Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
    Of timeless moments.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)