Famous quotes containing the words infinite, descending and/or chains:
“And universal Nature, through her vast
And crowded whole, an infinite paroquet,
Repeats one note.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
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