Famous quotes containing the words long and/or history:
“I have been long a sleeper; but I trust
My absence doth neglect no great design
Which by my presence might have been concluded.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)