Famous quotes containing the words grand, falls and/or station:
“That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europethe most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“It was evident that the same foolish respect was not here claimed for mere wealth and station that is in many parts of New England; yet some of them were the first people, as they are called, of the various towns through which we passed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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