Dearest

Famous quotes containing the word dearest:

“Then dearest child mournest thou only for Jupiter?
Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars?”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it. He died
As one that had been studied in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he owed
As ‘twere a careless trifle.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)