Finer

Famous quotes containing the word finer:

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians’, and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Nay sure, he’s not in hell; he’s in Arthur’s bosom, if ever
man went to Arthur’s bosom. ‘A made a finer end, and went
away an it had been any christom child.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)