Famous quotes containing the words local, hidden and/or variable:
“In everyone’s youthful dreams, philosophy is still vaguely but inseparably, and with singular truth, associated with the East, nor do after years discover its local habitation in the Western world. In comparison with the philosophers of the East, we may say that modern Europe has yet given birth to none.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is no longer a flame hidden in my veins; now it is Venus in all her might fastened to her prey.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)
“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
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