Famous quotes containing the words strong, probable and/or prime:
“Dearest Nature, strong and kind,
Whispered, “Darling, never mind!
Tomorrow they will wear another face,
The founder thou; these are thy race!””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)
“My prime of youth is but a frost of cares,
My feast of joy is but a dish of pain,
My crop of corn is but a field of tares,
And all my good is but vain hope of gain:
The day is past, and yet I saw no sun,
And now I live, and now my life is done.”
—Chidiock Tichborne (1558–1586)