Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or growth:
“Ghost. My hour is almost come
When I to sulph’rous and tormenting flames
Must render up myself.
Hamlet. Alas, poor ghost!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)