Profession/history

Famous quotes containing the words profession and/or history:

“install me in any profession
Save this damn’d profession of writing,
where one needs one’s brains all the time.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“If usually the “present age” is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as the history of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.”
—Josiah Royce (1855–1916)