Famous quotes containing the words long and/or history:
“O weary night, O long and tedious night,
Abate thy hours, shine comforts from the east.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)