Land State Provincial

Famous quotes containing the words land, state and/or provincial:

    “For Nature ever faithful is
    To such as trust her faithfulness.
    When the forest shall mislead me,
    When the night and morning lie,
    When the sea and land refuse to feed me,
    ‘Twill be time enough to die.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that, owing to the equipollence of the objects and reasons thus opposed we are brought firstly to a state of mental suspense and next to a state of “unperturbedness” or quietude.”
    —Sextus Empiricus (2nd or 3rd cen., A.d.)

    “The dead level of provincial existence.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)