Greater East

Famous quotes containing the words greater and/or east:

“There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“At length, having come up fifty rods off, he uttered one of those prolonged howls, as if calling on the god of loons to aid him, and immediately there came a wind from the east and rippled the surface, and filled the whole air with misty rain, and I was impressed as if it were the prayer of the loon answered, and his god was angry with me; and so I left him disappearing far away on the tumultuous surface.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)