British Israelites Maintain

Famous quotes containing the words british, israelites and/or maintain:

    “Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears,
    Roses do blush and hang their heads,”
    —Henry Noel, British poet, and William Strode, British poet. Beauty Extolled (attributed to Noel and to Strode)

    “The Israelites groaned under their slavery, and cried out. Out of the slavery their cry for help rose up to God.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 2:23.

    “He should be as vigorous as a sugar maple, with sap enough to maintain his own verdure,... and not like a vine, which being cut in the spring bears no fruit, but bleeds to death in the endeavor to heal its wounds.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)