Present Day North

Famous quotes containing the words present, day and/or north:

    “Oh! what a poor thing is human life in its best enjoyments!—subjected to imaginary evils when it has no real ones to disturb it! and that can be made as effectually unhappy by its apprehensions of remote contingencies as if it was struggling with the pains of a present distress!”
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    “Before a day was over,
    Home comes the rover,
    For mother’s kiss—sweeter this
    Than any other thing!”
    —William Allingham (1824–1889)

    “Come see the north wind’s masonry.
    Out of an unseen quarry evermore
    Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
    Curves his white bastions with projected roof”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)