Hour Lines

Famous quotes containing the words hour and/or lines:

“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.”
—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)

“There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up tradition, and expecting, beside fair weather and abundant harvests, we did not learn what. They were contented to live, since it was so contrived for them, and where their lines had fallen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)