Fiddle/history

Famous quotes containing the words fiddle and/or history:

“It needs more skill than I can tell
To play the second fiddle well.”
—C.H. (Charles Haddon)

“The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)