Graves/history

Famous quotes containing the words graves and/or history:

    With a whirl of thought oppressed
    I sink from reverie to rest.
    An horrid vision seized my head,
    I saw the graves give up their dead.
    Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)