Brown Defeat

Famous quotes containing the words brown and/or defeat:

“She does not know
Her beauty,
She thinks her brown body
Has no glory.”
—Waring Cuney (1906–1976)

“A self-denial, no less austere than the saint’s, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)