Famous quotes containing the word threads:
“Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passionstell me, what trespass is it that man should have them?... If nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piecemust the whole web be rent in drawing them out?”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“All is waste and worthless, till
Arrives the selecting will,
And, out of slime and chaos, Wit
Draws the threads of fair and fit.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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