Seat Declared Vacant

Famous quotes containing the words seat, declared and/or vacant:

“We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universal ... that error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

“In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay
Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure,
The heart luxuriates with indifferent things,
Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones,
And on the vacant air.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)