Prophetic Biography/early Compilations of S%C4%ABra

Famous quotes containing the words prophetic, biography and/or early:

    “Ghost. The serpent that did sting thy father’s life
    Now wears his crown.
    Hamlet. O my prophetic soul!
    My uncle?
    Ghost. Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Three early risings make an extra day.”
    —Chinese proverb.