Famous quotes containing the words hart, foundation and/or lost:
“Come, ye Sinners, poor and wretched,
Weak and wounded, sick and sore.
Jesus ready stands to save you,
Full of Pity joind with Powr.
He is able, he is able, he is able;
He is willing: doubt no more.”
—Joseph Hart (17121768)
“The Bermudas are said to have been discovered by a Spanish ship of that name which was wrecked on them.... Yet at the very first planting of them with some sixty persons, in 1612, the first governor, the same year, built and laid the foundation of eight or nine forts. To be ready, one would say, to entertain the first ships company that should be next shipwrecked on to them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“... Knowledge he shall unwind
Through victories of the mind,
Till, clambering at the cradle-side,
He dreams himself his mothers pride,
All knowledge lost in trance
Of sweeter ignorance.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)