Land State Provincial

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

    “A land of meanness, sophistry and mist.
    Each breeze from foggy mount and marshy plain
    Dilutes with drivel every drizzly brain.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “No man’s nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    “The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa’s temple at Rome.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)