Famous quotes containing the words hand and/or side:
“My lovemy faithshould instil into your bosom a praeternatural calm. You would rest from care.... You would get better.... And if not, Helen,... if you diedthen at least would I clasp your dear hand in death, and willinglyoh, joyfully ... go down with you into the night of the Grave.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other.... Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)