Tower/history

Famous quotes containing the words tower and/or history:

“The tower nearest the water gets the moonlight first.”
—Chinese proverb.

“In the history of the human mind, these glowing and ruddy fables precede the noonday thoughts of men, as Aurora the sun’s rays. The matutine intellect of the poet, keeping in advance of the glare of philosophy, always dwells in this auroral atmosphere.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)