Moves Lose Material

Famous quotes containing the words moves, lose and/or material:

    I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
    Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Mark, 8:36.

    Would it not be worth while to discover nature in Milton? be native to the universe? I, too, love Concord best, but I am glad when I discover, in oceans and wildernesses far away, the material of a million Concords: indeed, I am lost, unless I discover them.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)