Famous quotes containing the word equally:
“Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed,a, to me, equally mysterious origin for it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.”
—Edmund Burke (17291797)
“Oath and anchors equally will drag; nought else abides on fickle earth but unkept promises of joy.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)