Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or century:
“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)
“The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“They who in trouble untroubled are
Will trouble trouble itself.”
—Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)