Measure

Famous quotes containing the word measure:

“Who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“...the measure you give will be the measure you get...”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 4:24.

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“Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)