Earliest Long Count

Famous quotes containing the words earliest, long and/or count:

“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)

““We must take things more cheerfully than they deserve; especially since we have for a long time taken them more seriously than they deserve.”MThus speak brave soldiers of knowledge.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho’ others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)