Sat/history

Famous quotes containing the words sat and/or history:

“Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate:
His keys were rusty, and the lock was dull,”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“What is most interesting and valuable in it, however, is not the materials for the history of Pontiac, or Braddock, or the Northwest, which it furnishes; not the annals of the country, but the natural facts, or perennials, which are ever without date. When out of history the truth shall be extracted, it will have shed its dates like withered leaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)