High Hand

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or hand:

    “What generous beliefs console
    The brave whom Fate denies the goal!
    If others reach it, is content:
    To Heaven’s high will his will is bent.
    Firm on his heart relied,
    What lot soe’er betide,
    Work of his hand
    He nor repents nor grieves,
    Pleads for itself the fact,
    As unrepenting Nature leaves
    Her every act.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Miniver loved the Medici,
    Albeit he hand never seen one;
    He would have sinned incessantly
    Could he have been one.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)