Famous quotes containing the words god and/or commands:
“Olivia. Is’t not well done?
Viola. Excellently done, if God did all.
Olivia. ‘Tis in grain, sir, ‘twill endure wind and weather.
Viola. ‘Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature’s own sweet and cunning hand laid on.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)