Sidney Lanier Elementary

Famous quotes containing the words sidney, lanier and/or elementary:

    “Well, begone, begone, I say,
    Lest that Argus’ eyes perceive you.’
    Oh, unjust Fortunes sway,
    Which can make me thus to leave you,
    And from louts to run away.”
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    “Out of the woods my Master came,
    Content with death and shame.
    When Death and Shame would woo Him last,
    From under the trees they drew Him last:
    ‘Twas on a tree they slew Him—last
    When out of the woods He came.”
    —Sidney Lanier (1842–1881)

    “If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.”
    —Albert Einstein (1879–1955)