Famous quotes containing the word lapse:
“The lapse of ages changes all thingstime, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“The longest day must have its closethe gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896)
“I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following the same law with the system, with time, and all that is made ... and at last I resolved to launch myself on its bosom and float whither it would bear me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)