Saint John Mill

Famous quotes containing the words saint, john and/or mill:

    “O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.”
    —Teresa Of Avila, Saint (1515–1582)

    ““You the one, I the few”
    said John Adams
    speaking of fears in the abstract
    to his volatile friend Mr. Jefferson,”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “My temptation is quiet.
    Here at life’s end
    Neither loose imagination,
    Nor the mill of the mind
    Consuming its rag and bone,
    Can make the truth known.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)