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Famous quotes containing the words sir john, sir and/or john:

    “Thus while I sit and sigh the day
    With all his borrow’d lights away,
    Till night’s black wings do overtake me,
    Thinking on thee, thy beauties then,
    As sudden lights do sleepy men,
    So they by their bright rays awake me.”
    —Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)

    “When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
    All Nature was degraded;”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)