Famous quotes containing the words measure, soft and/or power:
“O flight,
bring her swiftly to our song.
She is great,
we measure her by the pine trees.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“Ill not be made a soft and dull-eyed fool
To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield
To Christian intercessors.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely, to put every man on his merits, and to give him so much power as he naturally exerts,no more, no less.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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