Famous quotes containing the words history of the, history of, history, early and/or struggles:
“The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony—periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)
“No doubt they rose up early to observe
The rite of May.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Religion, Society, and Nature—these are the three struggles of man.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)