Sat/history

Famous quotes containing the words sat and/or history:

    —The man who has stood on the Acropolis,
    And looked down over Attica; or he
    Who has sailed where picturesque Constantinople is,
    Or seen Timbuctoo, or hath taken tea
    In small-eyed China’s crockery-ware metropolis,
    Or sat amidst the bricks of Nineveh,
    May not think much of London’s first appearance—
    But ask him what he thinks of it a year hence!
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)