Prison/history

Famous quotes containing the words prison and/or history:

    “So must pure lovers’ souls descend
    T’affections, and to faculties,
    Which sense may reach and apprehend,
    Else a great Prince in prison lies.”
    —John Donne (c. 1572–1631)

    “There is no history of how bad became better.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)