Famous quotes containing the words net and/or charge:
“The history of literaturetake the net result of Tiraboshi, Warton, or Schlegel,is a sum of a very few ideas, and of very few original tales,all the rest being variation of these.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Yet I would bear my shortcomings
With meet tranquility,
But for the charge that blessed things
Id liefer not have be.
O, doth a bird deprived of wings
Go earth-bound wilfully!”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)