Prophetic Biography/early Compilations of S%c4%abra

Famous quotes containing the words prophetic, biography and/or early:

    “I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    “In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “No doubt they rose up early to observe
    The rite of May.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)