Rare Double Play

Famous quotes containing the words rare, double and/or play:

    “Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The Cossack eats Poland,
    Like stolen fruit;
    Her last noble is ruined,
    Her last poet mute:
    Straight, into double band
    The victors divide;
    Half for freedom strike and stand;—
    The astonished Muse finds thousands at her side.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.”
    —Simone Weil (1910–1943)