Famous quotes containing the words tale and/or finished:
“The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)
“Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by much art and study.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)