Famous quotes containing the word prove:
“Here may we prove the powr of prayr,
To strengthen faith, and sweeten care;
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all heavn before our eyes.”
—William Cowper (17311800)
“Just try to prove youre not a camel!”
—Russian saying popular in the Soviet period, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)
“Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed
Confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued,
And cries reproachful: Was it then my praise,
And not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth;
I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.”
—James Russell Lowell (18191891)
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