Famous quotes containing the words sat and/or history:
“Till, in a distant town,
Towns on from mine
I sat me down;
This was a dream.”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
“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 (18031882)
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