Famous quotes containing the words national, fire and/or plan:
“Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.”
—Ruth Benedict (18871948)
“Oh! joyous hearts! enfired with holy flame!
Is speech thus tasseled with praise?
Will not your inward fire of joy contain:
That it in open flames doth blaze?
For in Christs coach saints sweetly sing,
As they to glory ride therein.”
—Edward Taylor (16451729)
“Fixd like a plan on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)
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