Famous quotes containing the words special, guest and/or star:
“Navarette, a Chinese missionary, agrees with Leibniz and says that It is the special providence of God that the Chinese did not know what was done in Christendom; for if they did, there would be never a man among them, but would spit in our faces.”
—Matthew Tindal (16531733)
“Somebody said that it couldnt be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That maybe it couldnt, but he would be one
Who wouldnt say so till hed tried.”
—Edgar Albert Guest (18811959)
“For rigorous teachers seized my youth,
And purged its faith, and trimmd its fire,
Showd me the high, white star of Truth,
There bade me gaze, and there aspire.
Even now their whispers pierce the gloom:
What dost thou in this living tomb?”
—Matthew Arnold (18221888)