Black Hawk Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
1838 · Sauk nation, North America
Rock river was a beautiful country--liked my towns, my cornfields, and the home of my people. I fought for it. It is now yours--keep it as we did--it will produce you good crops.
Words spoken at a dinner in the year he died, printed with the Autobiography of Black Hawk
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A nameless harper
c. 21st century BC · Thebes, ancient Egypt · On the tombs of famous men who lived before
Consider what hath become of their tombs!
Their walls have been thrown down;
Their places are no more;
They are just as if they had never existed."The Song of the Harper" · in place of the original: the English translation by E. A. Wallis Budge (1914)
Dante Alighieri
early 14th century · Florence
There is no greater pain than to remember the happy time in misery.
Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria
The Divine Comedy, Inferno, canto 5, the words of Francesca
Jane Austen
1813 · England
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Pride and Prejudice, chapter 58, spoken by Elizabeth
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