Famous quotes containing the words ear, piercing and/or instruments:
“All things are wearisome; more than one can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, or the ear filled with hearing. What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 1:8-9.
“Old, aching God, grey with endless care,
calmly piercing evils new disguises,
glad of good surprises, wiser than despair
Hail and Hosanna, old, aching God!”
—Brian Wren (b. 1936)
“But when to mischiefmortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill!”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)
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