Famous quotes containing the words air, force and/or station:
“Only if loves fire with the breath
Of life be kindled, I doubt,
With our last air twill be breathd out,
And quenched with the cold of death.”
—Edward Herbert (15831648)
“A petty bureaucrat always watches his superiors countenance, just as a boatman trims his sails according to the force of the wind.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Say first, of God above, or Man below,
What can we reason, but from what we know?
Of Man what see we, but his station here,
From which to reason, or to which refer?
Thro worlds unnumberd tho the God be known,
Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
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—Alexander Pope (16881744)
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