Famous quotes containing the words iron, works and/or village:
“The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.
Lovers, to bed; tis almost fairy time.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Only the more uncompromising of the mystics still seek for knowledge in a silent land of absolute intuition, where the intellect finally lays down its conceptual tools, and rests from its pragmatic labors, while its works do not follow it, but are simply forgotten, and are as if they never had been.”
—Josiah Royce (18551916)
“Where village statesmen talked with looks profound,
And news much older than their ale went round.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (17281774)
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