Famous quotes containing the words polish, victory and/or lap:
“You will have to polish up the stars
with Bab-o and find a new God
as the earth empties out
into the gnarled hands of the old redeemer.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistancethat is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (18211881)
“Far from the sun and summer-gale
In thy green lap was Natures Darling laid,
What time, where lucid Avon strayd,
To him the mighty mother did unveil
Her awful face:”
—Thomas Gray (17161771)
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