Sat/history

Famous quotes containing the words sat and/or history:

    They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.
    Bible: Hebrew, Job 2:13.

    In the history of the human mind, these glowing and ruddy fables precede the noonday thoughts of men, as Aurora the sun’s rays. The matutine intellect of the poet, keeping in advance of the glare of philosophy, always dwells in this auroral atmosphere.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)