Famous quotes containing the words passed and/or safely:
“Fate then is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought;Mfor causes which are unpenetrated.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)