Famous quotes containing the words black, bears and/or rarely:
“Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts,—a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Think not, thou noble Roman,
That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome.
He bears too great a mind.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)