Indian Origin Settled

Famous quotes containing the words indian, origin and/or settled:

    “In the woods of Powhatan,
    Still ‘tis told by Indian fires
    How a daughter of their sires
    Saved a captive Englishman.”
    —William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)

    “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.”
    —Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)