Famous quotes containing the words spring, harbor and/or high:
“Ae spring brought off her master hale,
But left behind her ain grey tail:”
—Robert Burns (17591796)
“The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the fool at Athens, who fancied all the ships that came into the harbor were his own.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (16131680)
“I laugh at the lore and pride of man
At the sophist schools, and the learned clan;
For what are they all, in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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