Famous quotes containing the words royal, assent and/or act:
“Here was a royal fellowship of death.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.”
—John Jay Chapman (18621933)
“For I choose that my remembrances of him should be pleasing, affecting, religious. I will love him as a glorified friend, after the free way of friendship, and not pay him a stiff sign of respect, as men do to those whom they fear. A passage read from his discourses, a moving provocation to works like his, any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought, a flow of love, an original design of virtue, I call a worthy, a true commemoration.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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