Open Set Condition

Famous quotes containing the words open, set and/or condition:

“I have passed down the river before sunrise on a summer morning, between fields of lilies still shut in sleep; and when, at length, the flakes of sunlight from over the bank fell on the surface of the water, whole fields of white blossoms seemed to flash open before me, as I floated along, like the unfolding of a banner, so sensible is this flower to the influence of the sun’s rays.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Early, as well as late,
Rise with the sun, and set in the same bowers;”
—Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)

“Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)