Quotes on history

“Shakespeare…is of no age-nor, I may add, of any religion, or party, or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.”

William Hazlitt
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“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“The happiness of life, on the contrary, is made up of minute fractions-the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.”

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“Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground.”

Alexander Pope
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“Woman’s at best a contradiction still.”

Alexander Pope
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“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blessed.”

Alexander Pope
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“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

Alexander Pope
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history of this quote “I wear the chain I forged in life.” by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens
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history of this quote “Please, sir, I want some more.” by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens
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