Famous quotes containing the words south, plank and/or road:
“The developments in the North were those loosely embraced in the term modernization and included urbanization, industrialization, and mechanization. While those changes went forward apace, the antebellum South changed comparatively little, clinging to its rural, agricultural, labor-intensive economy and its traditional folk culture.”
—C. Vann Woodward (b. 1908)
“And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowingthen”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
—William Blake (17571827)
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