1st Baron Mount Temple

Famous quotes containing the words baron, mount and/or temple:

    “The wrinkles in my brow,
    The furrows in my face,
    Say, limping age will lodge him now
    Where youth must give him place.”
    —Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)

    “As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. The universe is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “One sorry fret,
    An anvill Sparke, rose higher,
    And in thy Temple falling, almost set
    The house on fire.
    Such fireballs dropping in the Temple Flame
    Burns up the building: Lord, forbid the same.”
    —Edward Taylor (1645–1729)