Brown Defeat

Famous quotes containing the words brown and/or defeat:

“they are brown and soft,
And liable to melt as snow.”
—Hart Crane (1899–1932)

“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)