Famous quotes containing the words fill and/or characters:
“Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv’n,
That each may fill the circle mark’d by Heav’n:”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)