Famous quotes containing the words brightest and/or star:
“That now his brightest diamond is grown
Darker by far than any coalpit stone.”
—Edward Taylor (1645–1729)
“The eager fate which carried thee
Took the largest part of me:
For this losing is true dying;
This is lordly man’s down-lying,
This his slow but sure reclining,
Star by star his world resigning.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)